Everything I've read about Elevator to the Gallows talks about it as a noir thriller, or focuses on the pathos of Jeanne Moreau's nocturnal wanderings, but I haven't seen anything about how funny the movie is. I'm mostly talking about the Veronique/Louis subplot, where the young would-be outlaws do everything wrong, but everything they do further implicates Julien in a murder he didn't commit (as opposed to the one he did commit). It's certainly ironic, but also genuinely funny. There are also some straight-up funny standalone scenes: the buffoonish prosecutor at the motel, the newspaper typesetters grousing about how the big story of the murder is screwing up the layout of their front page, and Veronique's overly melodramatic plans for a double suicide (which of course they botch). And then there's the scene with the German couple where the husband makes jokes to the young Frenchman about his experiences in the war; that must have been pretty transgressive for the time.…