The Eleventh Hour Guest
1945 film
- 15 August 1945 (1945-08-15)
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The Eleventh Hour Guest (French: L'invité de la onzième heure) is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Jean Tissier, Blanchette Brunoy and Roger Pigaut.[1] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch.
Synopsis
An inventor claims to have invented an incredible new machine which acts as a thought detector amongst other things. On the evening he unveils it to his family and intended wife, tragedy strikes and he is found dead.
Cast
- Jean Tissier as Christophe Berri
- Roger Pigaut as Le docteur Rémi Lambert
- Blanchette Brunoy as Antoinette Langeais
- Junie Astor as Isabelle Bourgoin
- Lily Baron as Olga
- Guillaume de Sax as Thomas Bourgoin
- Marcel Delaître as Monsieur Sulnac
- André Fouché as Serge
- René Génin as Calixte
- Jean Hébey as Frédéric
- Lily Mounet as Madame Sulnac
- Georgette Tissier as La soubrette
References
- ^ Rège p.229
Bibliography
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- The Eleventh Hour Guest at IMDb
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Films directed by Maurice Cloche
- The Ladies in the Green Hats (1937)
- The Little Thing (1938)
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- Women's Games (1946)
- Rooster Heart (1946)
- Monsieur Vincent (1947)
- Cage of Girls (1949)
- Doctor Laennec (1949)
- Born of Unknown Father (1950)
- The Bread Peddler (1950)
- Never Take No for an Answer (1951)
- Domenica (1952)
- The Sparrows of Paris (1953)
- A Missionary (1955)
- Girls of the Night (1958)
- Women's Prison (1958)
- Cocagne (1961)
- The Bread Peddler (1963)
- Agent X-77 Orders to Kill (1966)
- The Viscount (1967)
- The Killer Likes Candy (1968)
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