Web of Passion

Web of Passion
Directed byClaude Chabrol
Written byClaude Chabrol
Paul Gégauff
Based onThe Key to Nicholas Street by Stanley Ellin
Produced byRobert and Raymond Hakim
StarringAntonella Lualdi
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Bernadette Lafont
Madeleine Robinson
CinematographyHenri Decaë
Edited byJacques Gaillard
Music byPaul Misraki
Distributed byCompagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC)
Release date
  • 1959 (1959)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office1,446,479 admissions (France)

Web of Passion (also released as Leda, original French title: À double tour) is a 1959 French/Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel The Key to Nicholas Street by American writer Stanley Ellin. It was Chabrol's first film in colour and his first thriller, which would be his genre of choice for the rest of his career. The film had a total of 1,445,587 admissions in France.