7 December 2015								Mrs MAYER ⑧

1. Monday 7/12	Arte VM 20h55-22h30 THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY USA, 1955 (Mais qui a tué Harry?)
Director: Alfred HITCHCOCK
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, John Forsythe (who played Blake Carrington in Dynasty, a TV soap).
Based on a novella (short story) by a British writer and screenwriter, Jack TREVOR STORY, an author of detective fiction and espionage.
The film is set in a Vermont village in September →autumn colours, and they glued/stuck/leaves on the trees. It’s not one of the best known of Hitchcock’s films but it’s a very good black comedy.

Dead body= corpse (more technical) when there is a post mortem examination with a pathologist for an autopsy.
Rotten tomatoes: 90% / Full marks (10/10, ten out of ten-20/20- 100/100

Sold out (comm):	épuisé
Dead drunk:		ivre mort
They’re used to drinking/ They’ve had  plenty of practice
PolesPoland / Polish people
In one go:		cul sec
To adjust:		retoucher
Alterations:		retouches (to make alterations)
Mortgage [mo:gidj]:	credit immobilier
The landing strip:	piste d’atterrissage / runway (bigger)
to kill two birds with one stone:	faire d’une pierre deux coups
Along the sea front
To go to a spa:	station thermale
To take the waters:	faire une cure thermal
It’s hilly:		vallonné, montagneux
You’re pampered (gâté, dorloté) and the treatment is refunded
All mod cons/modern conveniences
In dry dock:		cale sèche
To hire a boat:	louer
To hire a car, a cook, a lawnmower…
House /apartment/ to let: the owner lets and the tenant rents a house or a flat