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Huit hommes dans un château

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Original title

Year

1942

Running time

93 min.

Country

France

Director

Richard Pottier

Screenwriter

Jean Aurenche, Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Novel: Jean Kéry

Cast

Music

Arthur Honegger, Arthur Hoérée

Cinematography

Georges Million (B&W)

Producer

La Société des Films Sirius

Genre

Drama | Crime. Cop Movies

Synopsis

The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...

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Huit hommes dans un château

1942

Richard Pottier