Marguerite of the Night
It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.
Claude Autant-Lara
Casts & Crew
Michèle Morgan
Yves Montand
Jean-François Calvé
Massimo Girotti
Jacques Clancy
Jean Debucourt
Louis Seigner
Pierre Palau
Also Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
A teenager who suffers from his mother's escapades imagines the life of his father in San Francisco.
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...