Ten Days' Wonder (film)
| Ten Days' Wonder | |
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American poster of the film | |
| La Décade prodigieuse | |
| Directed by | Claude Chabrol |
| Written by | Paul Gégauff Eugène Archer Paul Gardner (writer) Ellery Queen (novel) |
| Produced by | André Génovès |
| Starring | Michel Piccoli Anthony Perkins Orson Welles Marlène Jobert |
| Cinematography | Jean Rabier |
| Edited by | Jacques Gaillard |
| Music by | Pierre Jansen |
| Distributed by | Parafrance Films |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $5,323,830 |
Ten Days' Wonder (French: La Décade prodigieuse) is a 1971 murder-mystery film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert and Orson Welles. It is based on the 1948 novel Ten Days' Wonder by Ellery Queen, with the detective renamed Paul Régis. It is the fourth film that Welles and Perkins appear in together after The Trial in 1962.
Reviewing a revival of the tilm in 2018, Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker "… it’s a minor masterwork of freakazoidal cinema.… Chabrol orchestrates the grandiose theatrical tension with giddily audacious cinematography…. He reveals ravenous depravity beneath pious displays of benevolence and warns of the dangerous marriage of money and art."