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
Cast
- Marie Bell as Mattia
- Pierre Renoir as Jean Verdier
- Roger Karl as Rouque
- René Bergeron as Le capitaine
- Simone Barillier as Régine
- Thomy Bourdelle as Eric Schutz
- Lucien Callamand as Le maître d'hôtel
- Marcel Dalio
- Edith Gallia
- Enrico Glori
- Charles Lemontier
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.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0288782}}
{{Léo Joannon}}
Category:French crime drama films
Category:Dutch crime drama films
Category:1930s French-language films
Category:Films directed by Léo Joannon
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Films based on French novels
Category:Films scored by Jean Wiener
Category:Films based on works by Alfred Machard
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