When Midnight Strikes

1936 film
  • 27 November 1936 (1936-11-27)
Running time
80 minutesCountriesFrance
NetherlandsLanguageFrench

When Midnight Strikes (French: Quand minuit sonnera) is a 1936 French-Dutch crime drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Marie Bell, Pierre Renoir and Roger Karl.[1] It was adapted by Alfred Machard from his own novel of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques-Laurent Atthalin. A separate Dutch-language version Klokslag twaalf was also produced.[2]

Cast

  • Marie Bell as Mattia
  • Pierre Renoir as Jean Verdier
  • Roger Karl as Rouque
  • René Bergeron as Le capitaine
  • Simone Barillier as Régine
  • Thomy Bourdelle as Eric Schutz
  • Lucien Callamand as Le maître d'hôtel
  • Marcel Dalio
  • Edith Gallia
  • Enrico Glori
  • Charles Lemontier

References

  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.183
  2. ^ Rège p.537

Bibliography

  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

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  • The Arnauds (1967)
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