Midnight Tradition
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| Midnight Tradition | |
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| Directed by | Roger Richebé |
| Written by | Jean Aurenche René Jolivet Roger Richebé |
| Based on | Midnight Tradition by Pierre Mac Orlan |
| Produced by | Roger Richebé |
| Starring | Viviane Romance Georges Flamant Marcel Dalio |
| Cinematography | Armand Thirard |
| Edited by | Jean Feyte |
| Music by | Jean Lenoir |
Production company | Les Films Roger Richebé |
| Distributed by | La Société des Films Sirius |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Midnight Tradition (French: La tradition de minuit) is a 1939 French mystery thriller film directed by Roger Richebé and starring Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant and Marcel Dalio.[1][2] Based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Pierre Mac Orlan, the film was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris, and the sets were designed by the art directors René Renoux and Roland Quignon.
Cast
[edit | edit source]- Viviane Romance as Clara Véry
- Georges Flamant as Claude Thierry
- Marcel Dalio as Édouard Mutter, l'antiquaire
- Marcel Pérès as Louis Fraipont, le boucher
- Mauricette Mercereau as Chéri-Bibi
- Alexandre Rignault as Hortilopitz
- Pierre Larquey as Béatrix
- Léonce Corne as M. Poivre, le patron de Béatrix
- Yves Deniaud as Le bonimenteur
- Georges Malkine as Un gangster
- Jean Brochard as Le commissaire
- Henri Vilbert as Un agent de police
References
[edit | edit source]Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- 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.
- Spicer, Andrew & Hanson, Helen. A Companion to Film Noir. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Midnight Tradition at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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Categories:
- 1939 films
- French mystery films
- 1939 mystery films
- French crime films
- 1939 crime films
- French thriller films
- 1939 thriller films
- 1930s French-language films
- Films directed by Roger Richebé
- French black-and-white films
- 1930s French films
- Films based on French novels
- Films shot in Paris
- Films set in Paris
- Films based on works by Pierre Mac Orlan
- 1930s French film stubs