When Midnight Strikes

{{short description|1936 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = When Midnight Strikes

| image = When Midnight Strikes.jpg

| caption =

| director =Léo Joannon

| producer =Hans Boekman

| based_on =When Midnight Strikes by Alfred Machard

| writer = Alfred Machard

| narrator =

| starring =Marie Bell
Pierre Renoir
Roger Karl

| music = Jean Wiener

| cinematography = Boris Kaufman

| editing =

| studio =France Europe Films

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1936|11|27|df=y}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = France
Netherlands

| language = French

| budget =

| gross =

}}

When Midnight Strikes (French: Quand minuit sonnera) is a 1936 French-Dutch crime drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Marie Bell, Pierre Renoir and Roger Karl.Bessy & Chirat p.183 It was adapted by Alfred Machard from his own novel of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques-Laurent Atthalin. A separate Dutch-language version Klokslag twaalf was also produced.Rège p.537

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References

Bibliography

  • 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.