Personal Column (film)
Personal Column | |
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Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
Produced by |
André Paulvé Michel Safra |
Written by |
Jacques Companéez Simon Gantillon Ernst Neubach |
Starring |
Maurice Chevalier Pierre Renoir Marie Déa Erich von Stroheim |
Music by | Michel Michelet |
Cinematography |
Marcel Fradetal Michel Kelber Jacques Mercanton |
Edited by | Yvonne Martin |
Production company |
Spéva Films |
Distributed by | DisCina |
Release dates |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Personal Column (French: Pièges) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir and Marie Déa. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try and track down the killer. She meets and falls in love with the charming nightclub owner and womanizer Robert Fleury, but clues begin to appear that suggest that it is he who is the murderer.
Partial cast
- Maurice Chevalier : Robert Fleury
- Marie Déa : Adrienne Charpentier, la journaliste
- Pierre Renoir : Brémontier
- Erich von Stroheim : Pears, l'ex-couturier
- André Brunot : Ténier, l'inspecteur en chef
- Jacques Varennes : Maxime
- Henri Bry : Oglou Vacapoulos
- Catherine Farel : Lucie Baral
- Madeleine Geoffroy : Valérie
- Milly Mathis : Rose
- Jean Témerson : Batol, un inspecteur
- Mady Berry : Sidonie, la cuisinière
- Pierre Magnier : l'homme d'affaires
- André Numès Fils : le spectateur barbu
- Raymond Rognoni : un inspecteur de police
Bibliography
- Alpi, Deborah Lazaroff. Robert Siodmak: A Biography. McFarland, 1998.