The Last Turning
1939 film by Pierre Chenal
- 17 May 1939 (1939-05-17)
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The Last Turning (French: Le Dernier tournant) is a 1939 French film noir directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Fernand Gravey, Corinne Luchaire and Michel Simon.[1] [2] It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. The screenplay was written by Charles Spaak and Henri Torrès, based on the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. It was the first screen adaptation of the novel followed by the 1943 film Ossessione and The Postman Always Rings Twice in 1946.
Cast
- Fernand Gravey as Frank
- Michel Simon as Nick Marino
- Corinne Luchaire as Cora Marino
- Marcel Vallée as Le juge
- Robert Le Vigan as Le cousin maître-chanteur
- Etienne Decroux as Le patron du bistrot
- Florence Marly as Madge, la dompteuse
- Jean-François Martial as L'architecte
- Pierre Labry as Un camionneur
- Georges Péclet as L'assureur
- Auguste Bovério as Le prêtre
- Pierre Sergeol as L'avocat
- René Bergeron as Le commissaire
- Marcel Duhamel as Le monsieur pressé
- Charles Blavette as Un camionneur
- Serge Nadaud as Le motard
- Georges Douking as Un joueur
- Fred Pasquali as Un joueur
- Georges Paulais as Le greffier
- Yvonne Yma as La femme
References
Bibliography
- Hodgson, Michael. Patricia Roc. Author House, 2013.
- Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
External links
- The Last Turning at IMDb
- The Last Turning at AllMovie
- The Last Turning at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Le Dernier tournant at filmsdefrance.com
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Films directed by Pierre Chenal
- Street Without a Name (1934)
- The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1936)
- The Former Mattia Pascal (1937)
- The Man from Nowhere (1937)
- The Alibi (1937)
- The Lafarge Case (1938)
- The Last Turning (1939)
- Todo un hombre (1943)
- The Corpse Breaks a Date (1944)
- The Abyss Opens (1945)
- Viaje sin regreso (1946)
- Devil and the Angel (1946)
- Clochemerle (1948)
- Native Son (1951)
- The Idol (1952)
- Confession at Dawn (1954)
- The Night They Killed Rasputin (1960)
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