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Jean Gabin | ... | Lucien Bourrache, 'Gueule d'Amour' | |
Mireille Balin | ... | Madeleine | |
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Pierre Etchepare | ... | Le patron de l'hôtel |
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Henri Poupon | ... | Monsieur Cailloux |
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Jean Aymé | ... | Le valet de chambre (as Jean Ayme) |
Pierre Magnier | ... | Le commandant | |
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Marguerite Deval | ... | Madame Courtois |
René Lefèvre | ... | René | |
Jane Marken | ... | Madame Cailloux (as Jeanne Marken) | |
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Paulette Noizeux | ... | L'épouse au face à main |
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André Siméon | ... | Le patron du restaurant (as Siméon) |
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Pierre Labry | ... | L'imprimeur |
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Lucien Dayle | ... | Un client |
Louis Florencie | ... | Le dîneur (as Florencie) | |
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Paul Fournier | ... | Un client |
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu. Written by Yepok
This film was unique on a couple of counts: 1) it clearly sanctions a crime of passion as something that does not cry out for retributive justice--it elicits sympathy for the perpetrator of the crime much more than for the victim; 2) there is a kind of male bonding between Gabin and his doctor "copain" which suggests that friendship between men can attain a measure of intimacy never possible in their relations with women--and this without a hint of homosexual eroticism. Maybe it was France of the Popular Front that made it all possible.