Wolves Between Them
{{short description|1936 film}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Wolves Between Them
| image = Wolves Between Them.jpg
| caption =
| director =Léon Mathot
| producer =Bob Faure
| based_on =Wolves Between Them by Charles Robert-Dumas
| writer = Charles Robert-Dumas
Charles Spaak
| narrator =
| starring =Roger Duchesne
Jules Berry
Renée Saint-Cyr
| music = Jean Lenoir
| cinematography = René Gaveau
Paul Portier
| editing =Jacques Desagneaux
| studio =Compagnie Française Cinématographique
| distributor = Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique
| released = {{Film date|1936|09|03|df=yes}}
| runtime = 103 minutes
| country = France
| language = French
| budget =
| gross =
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Wolves Between Them (French: Les loups entre eux) is a 1936 French spy thriller film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Roger Duchesne, Jules Berry and Renée Saint-Cyr.Bessy & Chirat p.138Crisp p.322 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It is a sequel to the 1935 film Second Bureau. Two further entries in the series A Man to Kill (1937) and Captain Benoît (1938) were released. The film was remade as the 1939 British release Secret Journey.
Synopsis
A design for a new French gas mask has been stolen from Paris by a German spy. Captain Benoît of the Deuxième Bureau is sent to Nazi-ruled Berlin to try and recover it.
Cast
- Roger Duchesne as Le capitaine Benoît
- Jules Berry as Le commissaire Raucourt
- Renée Saint-Cyr as Nicole Servigne
- Suzanne Desprès as Gertrude Weygelmann
- Pierre Renoir as Gottfried Welter
- Gina Manès as Gina
- Laure Diana as Natacha
- Foun-Sen as La domestique de Benoît
- Jean Debucourt as Le lieutenant von Brenner
- Pierre Finaly as Le juge d'instruction
- Marcel Vallée as Le directeur de la prison
- Arthur Devère as Le garçon du Vaterland
- Pierre Magnier as Le colonel Guéraud
- Bernard Lancret as Max von Raugwitz
- Camille Bert as Weygelmann
- Georges Prieur as Le général von Raugwitz
- Robert Ralphy as L'avocat de Brenner
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|0195030}}
{{Léon Mathot}}
Category:French thriller films
Category:1930s French-language films
Category:Films directed by Léon Mathot
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Films scored by Jean Lenoir
Category:Films with screenplays by Charles Spaak
Category:Films based on French novels
Category:Films based on works by Charles Robert-Dumas
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