Le jour et l'heure (1963)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

René Clément

Writers:

René Clément (adaptation) &
Roger Vailland (adaptation) ...

Release Date:

19 February 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Romance | War

Plot:

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from...

Plot Keywords:

Train | French Resistance | Gestapo | French Occupation | Aviator

Cast

Simone Signoret	...	Therese Dutheil
Stuart Whitman	...	Captain Allan Morley
Geneviève Page	...	Agathe Dutheil
Michel Piccoli	...	Antoine
Reggie Nalder	...	Le gestapiste
Billy Kearns	...	Pat Riley
Marcel Bozzuffi	...	Inspector Lerat
Henri Virlojeux	...	Legendre - le pharmacien résistant (as Henri Virlogeux)
Hénia Suchar	...	La jeune résistante en bleu
Hubert de Lapparent	...	Le procureur Jasseron - un collaborateur
Carl Studer	...	Le major Gordon - l'Américain du réseau de résistance
Roger Kemp	...	Un aviateur anglais
Mark Burns	...	Un aviateur anglais
Jacques Herlin
Colette Castel	...	Lucie

Also Known As:

Il giorno e l'ora (Italy)
The Day and the Hour (USA)
Today We Live

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

France | Italy

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Filming Locations:

Studios Eclair, Epinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Company:

Compagnia Cinematografica Mondiale (CCM)

Soundtrack:

La Romance de Paris

René Clément:WW2 again.

René Clément comes back to his favorite subject:WW2.His filmography boasts two of the most important films dealing with it:"les maudits" (1947) and "jeux interdits" (1952).Other works include documentary "la bataille du rail"(1945) and "le père tranquille"(1946) .

There were two more WW2 movies in the sixties;Clement had become more interested in thrillers though:he came in blaring with "plein soleil "(purple noon-the first version of "the talented M.Ripley)but did not go out the same way as his thrillers became more and more abysmal in the late sixties and seventies)

"Le jour et l'heure" although much inferior to the four war movies mentioned above,is still watchable today.Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman are very talented leads and they get good support from Geneviève Page.Signoret portrays a woman who could not dabble with the idea of going into resisting during the Occupation.All she wanted is to lead a quiet life so she buried her head in the sand.Little did she know she would be involved in a dangerous mission :first reluctantly,she had to help English pilot Whitman escape from occupied France .

Clement's liking for thriller surfaces in the scene which takes place on the train ,a very suspenseful sequence.

Clément 's last war movie "Paris brûle-t-il?" (1966) yielded beneath the weight of its fifty stars who literally drowned it out.