A Man to Kill
1937 film
- 25 February 1937 (1937-02-25)
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A Man to Kill (French: L'Homme à abattre) is a 1937 French spy thriller film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Jean Murat, Jules Berry and Viviane Romance.[1] It was based on a novel of the same title by Charles Robert-Dumas.[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was the third in a series of four films, followed by Captain Benoît in 1938.
Cast
- Jean Murat as Le capitaine Benoît
- Jules Berry as Le commissaire Raucourt
- Roger Karl as Le commissaire Werter
- Viviane Romance as Hilda
- Raymond Aimos as Vic
- Bernard Lancret as Stéphane Gietzinger
- Madeleine Robinson as Andrée Ruval
- Pierre Magnier as Le colonel Guéraud
- Georges Prieur as Le général von Raugwitz
- Jean-Max as L'agent von Haidingen
References
Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
- Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- A Man to Kill at IMDb
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Films directed by Léon Mathot
- In the Shadow of the Harem (1928)
- Instinct (1930)
- Passport 13.444 (1931)
- Kiss Me (1932)
- Count Obligado (1935)
- The Mascot (1935)
- Wolves Between Them (1936)
- A Man to Kill (1937)
- Chéri-Bibi (1938)
- The Rebel (1938)
- Immediate Call (1939)
- Sacred Woods (1939)
- Hangman's Noose (1940)
- The Man Without a Name (1943)
- Night Warning (1946)
- The Tragic Dolmen (1948)
- The Dancer of Marrakesh (1949)
- My Childish Father (1953)
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