Directed by:
Marcel CarnéComposer:
Maurice JaubertCast:
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin, Bernard Blier, Madeleine Rousset, Georges Douking, Marcel Pérès, Léonce Corne, Gabrielle Fontan (more)Plots(1)
Jean Gabin (La Grande Illusion, Le Quai des brumes) stars as the working-class François who has committed a terrible crime. Holed up in a claustrophobic flat, over the course of a long night he reflects on the oppressive circumstances – a love affair with young florist Francoise (Jacqueline Laurent); the knowledge that she is under the damaging spell of the sinister Valentin (Jules Berry); and a fling with Clara (Arletty), Valentin’s assistant – that have led him, inexorably, to murder. (Independent Cinema Office)
(more)Cast
Jean Gabin
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Two Men in Town (1973)
Holy Year (1976)
Jules Berry
France
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Unusual Tales (1949)
Arletty
France
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
Un drôle de dimanche (1958)
Mady Berry
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Daybreak (1939)
Gates of the Night (1946)
René Génin
France
Best movies:
The Moment of Truth (1952)
Port of Shadows (1938)
Daybreak (1939)
Bernard Blier
Argentina
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Les Misérables (1958)
Marie-October (1959)
Madeleine Rousset
France
Best movies:
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Daybreak (1939)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Georges Douking
France
Best movies:
Judgment of the God (1952)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
The Hunchback of Paris (1959)
Marcel Pérès
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale (1963)
Léonce Corne
France
Best movies:
Crime and Punishment (1956)
Daybreak (1939)
Joseph Balsamo (1973) (series)
Gabrielle Fontan
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Jacqueline Laurent
France
Best movies:
Two Timid Souls (1928)
Daybreak (1939)
Jacques Baumer
France
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
The Wanton (1949)
A Simple Case of Money (1949)
Germaine Lix
France
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
Robert Le Ray
France
Best movies:
The Battle of the Rails (1946)
Daybreak (1939)
Speaking of Murder (1957)
Georges Gosset
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
Maurice Salabert
France
Best movies:
Juve vs. Fantômas (1913)
Daybreak (1939)
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942)
Arthur Devère
Belgium
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
Le Plaisir (1952)
Marcel Rouzé
France
Best movies:
The Knight of the Night (1954)
Les Misérables (1958)
Le Trou (1960)
André Nicolle
France
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)