Their collaboration began soon after, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisation, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee ("Ellery Queen"). They met in 1948 at the award dinner for Narcejac, to which Boileau - as a prior winner - had also been invited. Individually, Boileau and Narcejac were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures, awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. Franju Written byGeorges Franju Jean Redon Pierre Boileau Thomas Narcejac Claude. of callous entrapment, evocative of Boileau-Narcejac and of Vertigo. is not up to scratch,the writers are not Boileau-Narcejac or Patricia Highsmith and in. Faces in the Dark, their second book, has an even more painfully vulnerable victim. They also notably adapted the novel Les yeux sans visage by Jean Redon into the horror film known in English as Eyes Without a Face (1960). Eyes Without a Face, directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju. The Dark Stone of Cats Kitty Untitled Studio Untitled Studio. A number of their works were adapted for film, including the renowned Les Diaboliques, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated.
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