The Day and the Hour

1963 French film
  • 1963 (1963) (France)
  • 19 February 1964 (1964-02-19) (United States)
Running time
110 minutesCountriesFrance
ItalyLanguagesFrench
English

The Day and the Hour (French: Le jour et l'heure) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman.[1]

Plot

During the Nazi occupation, an American pilot named Allan Morley meets Thérèse Dutheil, a Parisian woman whose husband is a prisoner in Germany. It's May 1944, and the Gestapo is hunting down Allied soldiers whose plane was shot down. When Thérèse unwittingly gets involved in helping transport the aviators secretly, she and Allan end up traveling together to Toulouse to evade Gestapo capture. Despite their involuntary journey, a romance sparks between them. However, the Resistance separates them in the Pyrenees, sending Allan to Spain so he can rejoin his unit in England. After a heartbreaking goodbye, news of the Allied invasion arrives. What lies ahead for them once the war is over?

Cast

  • Simone Signoret as Therese Dutheil
  • Stuart Whitman as Captain Allan Morley
  • Geneviève Page as Agathe Dutheil
  • Michel Piccoli as Antoine
  • Reggie Nalder as Le gestapiste
  • Billy Kearns as Pat Riley
  • Marcel Bozzuffi as Inspector Lerat
  • Henri Virlogeux as Legendre
  • Pierre Dux as Inspector Marboz

References

  1. ^ "Le Jour et l'heure". cinematheque.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-02-06.

External links

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