In the Eyes of Memory
Aux yeux du souvenir
Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.
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Cast
Jim Gérald
as Major
Léon Arvel
as Doctor
Philippe Lemaire
as A pilot (uncredited)
Albert Duvaleix
as A passenger
Jean Marais
as Jacques Forestier
Daniel Ivernel
as Bordas, the radio
Jean Lagache
as A mechanic
Joëlle Bernard
as (uncredited)
Germaine Michel
as The landlady
Marfa d'Hervilly
as A passenger
Marcel Rouzé
as (uncredited)
Jean Chevrier
as Commander Pierre Aubry
Robert Murzeau
as Paul Marcadout
Jean Aymé
Guy Henry
as (uncredited)
Michèle Morgan
as Claire Magny
Pierre Roussel
as A steward (uncredited)
Jeannette Batti
as Ketty
Colette Mars
as Marcelle Marinier
Nicole Courcel
as A student from the Simon course
Jacques Louvigny
as The passenger
Moune de Rivel
as The nightclub singer
Robert Hossein
as A student from the Simon course
