This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.
In French with English subtitles. The title translates to
Their Last Night. This is a VHS transfer.
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan (
Madeleine Robinson) rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin (
Jean Gabin), a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realizes that she is in love with him. But then she discovers the truth about Pierre...
Jean Gabin and Madeleine Robinson star in this respectable
filmpolicier, a genre that became extraordinarilypopular in France in the 1950s. It was the last in a series of three films Gabinmade with director
Georges Lacombe, after
Martin Roumagnac (1946) and
La Nuit est Mon Royaume (1951). Lacombe's films are noted for their pessimistic mood and film noir atmosphere. Here, the director evokes the style of the poetic realists of the late 1930s (notably
Marcel Carné).
