Eight Men in a Castle (1942)
Synopsis
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...
Release Date: 1942-12-09
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: Richard Pottier
Top Cast
- René Dary as Mr. Paladine
- Jacqueline Gauthier as Mrs. Paladine
- Louis Salou as Mr. Delaunay
- Aline Carola as Hélène de Chanceau
- Georges Grey as Alain
- Roger Champi as Firmin
- Jean Meyer as Notary's nephew
- Jean Daurand as Acrobat
- Colette Régis as Mrs. de Chanceau
- André Carnège as Investigating judge
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