Strangers in the House (1942)

Drama
Crime
Mystery

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.

Cast

Maître Hector Loursat
Nicole Loursat
Le président du tribunal des assises
Jo, le patron du "Boxing Bar"
Edmond Dossin
Marcel Destrivaux
Ephraïm (Amédé) Luska
L'huissier aux Assises
Le gardien de prison (uncredited)
Un policier chez Manu (uncredited)
Une spectatrice aux Assises (uncredited)
Un garde aux Assises (uncredited)
Un garde aux Assises (uncredited)
Monsieur Georges, le libraire (uncredited)
Destrivaux père (uncredited)
Le docteur (uncredited)
Adèle (uncredited)
L'agent (uncredited)
Un policier chez Manu (uncredited)
Le narrateur (uncredited)
(uncredited)
Madame Manu
(uncredited)
L'oncle Daillat (uncredited)
Le gendarme (uncredited)
Une mère au tribunal (uncredited)
Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
Madame Daillat (uncredited)
Le greffier aux Assises (uncredited)
Daillat père (uncredited)
Madame Marthe Dossin
(uncredited)
La Gourde (uncredited)
Une journaliste (uncredited)
Madame Laurence Rogissart (uncredited)
Le greffier de Ducup (uncredited)
Maître Gérard Rogissart
Le commissaire Binet
Émile Manu

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