It Happened at the Inn
{{short description|1943 film}}
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| director = Jacques Becker
| producer = Charles Méré
| screenplay = Jacques Becker
| based_on = Goupi mains rouges by Pierre Véry
| starring = Fernand Ledoux
Robert Le Vigan
Blanchette Brunoy
| music = Jean Alfaro
| cinematography = Jean Bourgoin
| editing = Marguerite Renoir
| studio = Les Films Minerva
| distributor = Les Films Minerva
| released = {{Film date|1943|4|14|df=yes}}
| runtime = 104 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
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It Happened at the Inn (French: Goupi mains rouges) is a 1943 French mystery film directed by Jacques Becker and starring Fernand Ledoux, Robert Le Vigan, Georges Rollin and Blanchette Brunoy.Slide p.61 It follows an investigation into the family members of an old woman who has been murdered. The film is based on the 1937 novel with the same title by Pierre Véry.{{Cite web|url=http://cinema.encyclopedie.films.bifi.fr/index.php?pk=46553|title=Goupi Mains-Rouges|language=French|work=bifi.fr|publisher=Cinémathèque Française|accessdate=2015-10-05}} It was released in France on 14 April 1943.{{Cite web|url=http://en.unifrance.org/movie/1789/it-happened-at-the-inn|title=It Happened at the Inn|work=UniFrance Films|accessdate=2015-10-05}}
The film was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris, with location filming taking place around Charente.
Cast
- Fernand Ledoux as Goupi-Mains rouges
- Robert Le Vigan as Goupi-Tonkin
- Georges Rollin as Goupi-Monsieur
- Blanchette Brunoy as Goupi-Muguet
- Arthur Devère as Goupi-Mes sous
- Germaine Kerjean as Goupi-Tisane
- Maurice Schutz as Goupi-L'Empereur
- Guy Favières as Goupi-La Loi
- Marcelle Hainia as Goupi-Cancan
- René Génin as Goupi-Dicton
- Albert Rémy as Jean des Goupis
- Line Noro as Marie des Goupis
- Marcel Pérès as Eusèbe, le gendarme
- Louis Seigner as L'instituteur
- Pierre Labry as Minain
- Maurice Marceau as Un porteur à la gare
References
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Bibliography
- Slide, Anthony. Selected Film Criticism: Foreign Films, 1930-1950. Scarecrow Press, 1984.
External links
- {{TCMDb title|0035951}}
{{Jacques Becker}}
Category:1940s mystery drama films
Category:Films based on French novels
Category:Films based on works by Pierre Véry
Category:Films directed by Jacques Becker
Category:French mystery drama films
Category:1940s French-language films
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:French-language mystery drama films
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