This is what I gleamed in my search. In 1941 he was accused
and imprisonned for the massacre of his father, his aunt and
the servant - some say also the dog) with a pruning-knife. He
remained in prison until 1943 when he was judged non-guilty,
the trial having been rife with contradicting evidence. The
killer was never found and doubt always remained concerning
his guilt or innocence. This is why he changed his name from
Henri Girard to Georges Arnaud. He went on to live an
adventurous life with yet another entanglement with justice
but this time of a more political nature - he had exiled
himself to Algeria. He made his living as a journalist/writer
and was quite a character.
Wages of Fear is also a great film by Henri-George Clouzot
and features among Yves Montand among other great French
actors.
Nicole
> WAGES OF FEAR by Georges Arnaud; nitro
transportation on
> some *very* bumpy roads. You will sit quite still
when
> reading this...
>
> Btw, a blurb on my Swedish copy claims that Arnaud
received
> the death penalty (by guilloutine!) for murder in
the '30s,
> but was later released. No details, though. Anyone
can provide
> the story behind this?
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 23 Apr 2002 EDT