Thunder Over Paris

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| name = Thunder Over Paris

| image =File:Thunder Over Paris.jpg

| caption =

| director = Dominique Bernard-Deschamps

| producer =

| writer = Dominique Bernard-Deschamps
André Cayatte

| starring = Arletty
Marcel Dalio
Annie Ducaux
Erich von Stroheim

| music = Marcel Delannoy

| cinematography = Philippe Agostini
Michel Kelber

| editing = Pierre de Hérain

| studio = Belgatos

| distributor =DisCina (France)
Columbia Pictures (USA)

| released = {{Film date|1940|04|01|France|1940|06|27|USA|df=y}}

| runtime = 97 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

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Thunder Over Paris (French: Tempête) is a 1940 French drama film directed by Dominique Bernard-Deschamps and starring Arletty, Marcel Dalio and Annie Ducaux.Lennig p.400 {{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/34962/tempete | title=Tempête de Bernard-Deschamps (1939) - Unifrance }} It was shot at the Joinville Studios of Pathé in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert. It was filmed before the outbreak of war and released during the Phoney War period before the Fall of France.

Synopsis

Korlick is a notorious confidence trickster who travels the world pulling off various schemes. After his latest swindle in New York City he returns to Paris after many years away and dreams up a new scam - selling gullible investors the idea of creating a large inland sea in the Sahara Desert by canal and the flourishing civilisation it could support. With the police again on his tail, he is about to flee as he has always done, but trapped he is forced to take shelter in the attic of Barel and old associate of his and blackmailer. Barel, assisted by his mistress the singer Ida, manages to gain money from Korlick in exchange for his assistance. However he is amazed to discover that Korlick is secretly meeting with Jeanne, the attractive young wife of Pierre Desmarets who is heading the Korlick case. Barel assumes they are lovers and seeks to use the information to his own advantage. In fact, she is Korlick's daughter and he will kill to protect her honour even as the law closes in on him.