Le dernier tournant (1939)Director:Pierre Chenal |
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Le dernier tournant (1939)Director:Pierre Chenal |
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Fernand Gravey | ... | |
| Michel Simon | ... | ||
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Marcel Vallée | ... |
Le juge
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Auguste Bovério | ... |
Le prêtre
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René Bergeron | ... |
Le commissaire
(as Bergeron)
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Charles Blavette | ... |
Un camionneur
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Georges Douking | ... |
Un joueur
(as Douking)
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Marcel Duhamel | ... |
Le monsieur pressé
(as Duhamel)
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Etienne Decroux | ... |
Le patron du bistrot
(as Ducroux)
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Pierre Labry | ... |
Un camionneur
(as Labry)
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Jean-François Martial | ... |
L'architecte
(as Martial)
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Serge Nadaud | ... |
Le motard
(as Nadaud)
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Fred Pasquali | ... |
Un joueur
(as Pasquali)
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Georges Paulais | ... |
Le greffier
(as Paulais)
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Georges Péclet | ... |
L'assureur
(as Péclet)
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The first of the four versions of "postman always rings twice" is not uninteresting.Its main asset is Michel Simon's presence:he was one of the greatest French actors ever and he easily outshines Fernand Gravey and Corinne Luchaire as the lovers and all the other actors who would take on the hubby's part.It does not cut,however,Visconti's version and even Tay Garnett's in my humble opinion;on the other hand ,I've always thought that the Rafelson Nicholsonesque version was overblown and the weakest of the lot.
Pierre Chenal would never equal this success:the end of his career never finds back the noir atmosphere of his pre-war movies."La foire aux Chimères" ,his chef d'oeuvre, was a different matter.