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The Girl On A Motorcycle (1968)

• Director
  • Jack Cardiff
• Writers
  • André Pieyre de Mandiargues(novel "La Motocyclette")
  • Ronald Duncan(screenplay)
  • Jack Cardiff(adaptation)
• Stars
  • Marianne Faithfull
  • Alain Delon
  • Roger Mutton

  Director Jack Cardiff also served as scripter and cinematographer of the Anglo-French co-production Girl on a Motorcycle (La Motocyclette) The girl in question is played by leather-clad Marianne Faithfull, who speeds through Alsace on her cycle, en route to a tryst in Heidelberg with her ex-lover (Alain Delon). In a series of flashbacks, she recalls the events leading up to the present critical moment, including her desultory marriage. Based on a novel by Andre de Pieyre, the R-rated Girl on a Motorcycle was originally released in English-speaking countries in an X-rated version titled Naked Under Leather. Based on the stage play by Walter Melville.