A Man to Kill

A Man to Kill
Directed byLéon Mathot
Written byCarlo Rim
Based onA Man to Kill by Charles Robert-Dumas
Produced byAntoine de Rouvre
Jacques Schwob-d'Héricourt
StarringJean Murat
Jules Berry
Viviane Romance
CinematographyRené Gaveau
Edited byJacques Desagneaux
Music byJean Lenoir
Production
company
Compagnie Française Cinématographique
Distributed byLa Société des films Sirius
Release date
  • 25 February 1937 (1937-02-25)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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

References

  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.133
  2. ^ Goble p.800

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.
Stub icon

This article related to a French film of the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.