Preludes to Ecstasy (1961)
4.5
(13 Votes)
5.9
(134 Votes)
Overview
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.
Run Time 1 hr 47 min
Status Released
Release Date 1 Dec, 1961
Budget -
Revenue -
Similar Movies
3.4
Prince Stepan Kasatsky is an officer, an ardent, proud young man, and a big fan of the tsa...
7.1
While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexp...
8.4
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over ...
Videos
There are no videos to display for Preludes to Ecstasy .
CAST
Full Cast & Crew
Recommendations
8.344
Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but hi...
7.4
Nick and Noah are both embarking on life-changing adventures that are threatening to pull ...
6.668
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and A...
7.498
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home tri...
6.736
Shaw Landon has loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule, a fiery-temp...
6.2
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautifu...
6.11
After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will,...
6.3
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Ha...
