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Night Express (film)

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Night Express
Directed byMarcel Blistène
Written byRené Jolivet
Jacques Viot
Produced byRoger Ribadeau-Dumas
StarringRoger Pigaut
Sophie Desmarets
Paul Demange
CinematographyCharles Bauer
Edited byRaymond Louveau
Music byMarcel Stern
Production
company
Société Française de Cinématographie
Distributed byLa Société des Films Sirius
Release date
  • 19 September 1948 (1948-09-19)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Night Express (French: Rapide de nuit) is a 1948 French crime drama film directed by Marcel Blistène and starring Roger Pigaut, Sophie Desmarets and Paul Demange.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.

Synopsis

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A woman tricks an apparently naïve young man into carrying a suitcase full of stolen goods into a railway station. The young man substitutes the case for another, however, to avoid being an accomplice.[2]

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.463
  2. ^ "Rapide de nuit". Unifrance. Unifrance.

Bibliography

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  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950. Pygmalion, 1986
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