La Loi du nord

La Loi du nord is a 1939 French adventure drama film directed by Jacques Feyder who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel "Telle qu'elle était de son vivant" by Maurice Constantin-Weyer. The films stars Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm and Charles Vanel. It tells the story of an escaped prisoner, his woman secretary and two guardsmen in the Far North. Robert Shaw slaughters the lover of his wife and with Jacqueline, his secretary, runs away in Canada. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in the Northern Canada. But the corporal Dalrymple discovered their identity and hunts them, while Jacqueline dies exhausted by such a hard expedition. It competed for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

• Michèle Morgan as Jacqueline
• Pierre Richard-Willm as Robert Shaw
• Charles Vanel as Le caporal Dalrymple
• Max Michel as L'avocat
• Youcca Troubetzkov as Ellis
• Fabien Loris as Daugh

External links

• La Loi du nord at the British Film Institute
• La Loi du nord at the Internet Movie Database
• La Loi du nord at AllRovi
• La Loi du nord at DvdToile