Midnight Tradition

{{short description|1939 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Midnight Tradition

| image =File:Midnight Tradition.jpg

| caption =

| director = Roger Richebé

| producer = Roger Richebé

| based_on =Midnight Tradition by Pierre Mac Orlan

| writer = Jean Aurenche
René Jolivet
Roger Richebé

| narrator =

| starring = Viviane Romance
Georges Flamant
Marcel Dalio

| music = Jean Lenoir

| cinematography = Armand Thirard

| editing =Jean Feyte

| studio =Les Films Roger Richebé

| distributor =La Société des Films Sirius

| released = {{Film date|1939|04|22|df=yes}}

| runtime = 102 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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.{{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/10009/la-tradition-de-minuit | title=La Tradition de minuit de Roger Richebé (1939) - Unifrance }} Rège p.540 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.

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Bibliography

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  • 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.