Too Late to Love
{{short description|1959 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?
| image = Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? poster.jpg
| caption =
| director = Henri Decoin
| producer = Robert Chabert
Pierre Roustang
| writer = Albert Valentin
(adaptation)
Michel Audiard
(dialogue)
| screenplay = Henri Decoin
Pierre Roustang
| based_on = Claude Brulé
(d'apres une idée)
| starring = Michèle Morgan
Henri Vidal
| music = Charles Aznavour
| cinematography = Christian Matras
| editing = Claude Durand
| color_process = Black and white
| studio = Ulysse Productions
France Cinéma Productions
| distributor = Cinédis
| released = {{film date|df=yes|1959|05|06}}
| runtime = 100 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? (also known as Why Do You Come So Late? or US title: Too Late to Love) is a 1959 French drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Michèle Morgan and Henri Vidal.{{Cite web |title=Too Late to Love de Henri Decoin (1959) |url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/2175/too-late-to-love |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=en.unifrance.org}}
Plot
Reporter-photographer Walter Hermelin meets Catherine Ferrer, a lawyer who must plead in a libel suit against a wine company. She asks Walter to help her get exhibits incriminating the wine merchants. The reporter agrees and takes frightening photographs showing how poor people are incited to drink.
Cast
- Michèle Morgan as Maître Catherine Ferrer
- Henri Vidal as Walter Hermelin
- Francis Blanche as Camille - le patron du bistrot
- Marc Cassot as Le psychiatre de la clinique
- Pierre-Louis as Le président du tribunal (as Pierre Louis)
- Evelyne Aznavour as La secrétaire
- Albert Médina as Joseph Ackermann (as Albert Medina)
- Colette Richard as Julie - la patronne de l'hôtel de l'Espérance
- Geymond Vital as Maître Augier - l'avocat général
- Jean Claudio as Le grand-duc russe
- Robert Dalban as Le camelot en vins
- Claude Dauphin as René Dargillière
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0155040}}
{{Henri Decoin}}
{{Michel Audiard}}
Category:1950s French-language films
Category:Films directed by Henri Decoin
Category:Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard
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