Eight Men in a Castle (1942)
Crime
Drama
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...
Cast
M. Paladine
Mme Paladine
Le notaire
Le maître d'hôtel
Le cuisinier
Le commandant Dupuis
L'aubergiste
Le jardinier
L'inspecteur
Le mousse
Alain Severac
Firmin (uncredited)
M. Delaunay
La dame au spectacle (uncredited)
(uncredited)
L'ivrogne (uncredited)
(uncredited)
(uncredited)
Hélène de Chanceau
Alain
Firmin
Le neveu du notaire
L'acrobate
Mme de Chanceau
Le juge d'instruction
Crew
Director
Screenplay
Novel
Screenplay
Producer
Music
Music
Director of Photography
Editor
Art Direction
Sound Engineer