In a hard penitentiary two prisoners join forces and escape. On the run, they hole up in a remote cabin where they take a girl hostage

In a hard penitentiary two prisoners fight off the rumour that one of them denounced a recently executed inmate. With their fellow convicts at their throats they join forces and escape. Along the way, they hole up in a remote beach cabin where they take the angel-faced occupant (Marina Vlady, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her) as their hostage while they figure out their next move. The feature debut of Robert Hossein, The Wicked Go to Hell was adapted from the novel by celebrated crime writer Frédéric Dard (Paris Pick-up), a prison escape film that spins into a fatalistic noir, oozing with atmosphere from its striking compositions and explosions of violence.

Bonus Materials

• 2K restoration of the original negative by Gaumont
• Original uncompressed mono audio
• Audio commentary by critic and author Tim Lucas (2025)
• Picking Strawberries - A newly created ‘making of’ featurette with historian Lucas Balbo, featuring archive interviews with Hossein and Jean Rollin (2025, 15 mins)
• Behind Marked Eyes: The Cinematic Stare of Robert Hossein - A newly created featurette by Howard S. Berger about Hossein and his work (2025, 27 mins)
• Trailer

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Marina Vlady
•       Robert Hossein
•       Odile Versois
•       Giovanna Ralli
•       Mario Adorf
•       Henri Vidal
•       Serge Reggiani
•       Charles Blavette

Director: Robert Hossein

Additional Details

Label: Radiance

Genre: Film Noir

Language: French

Run Time: 93 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 10/20/26

UPC: 760137226079