Eight Men in a Castle
Huit hommes dans un château
Release: 1942-12-09
·Runtime: 93m
Crime
Drama
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
La Société des Films Sirius
Cast
Georges Grey
as Alain, Alain Severac
Jean Meyer
as Notary's nephew
André Carnège
as Investigating judge
Colette Régis
as Mrs. de Chanceau
Charles Lemontier
as Cook
Maxime Fabert
as Drunk (uncredited)
Julienne Paroli
as (uncredited)
René Dary
as Mr. Paladine
Jacqueline Gauthier
as Mrs. Paladine
Louis Salou
as Mr. Delaunay
Gabrielle Fontan
as Innkeeper
Jean Daurand
as Acrobat
Pierre Palau
as Notary
Jean Morel
as Commander Dupuis
