La Fille du diable
1946 Drama   

 

Credits
  • Director: Henri Decoin
  • Script: Henri Decoin, Alex Joffé, Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
  • Photo: Armand Thirard
  • Cast: Pierre Fresnay (Ludovic Mercier), Fernand Ledoux (Le docteur), Thérèse Dorny (Tante Hortense), Pierre Juvenet, Robert Seller (Le maire), Paul Frankeur (L’aubergiste), Nicolas Amato (Le brigadier), André Wasley (Le garde-chasse), Albert Glado (Le Tétard), François Patrice (George), Félix Claude (Saint Jean), Lucy Lancy (L’infirmière), Henri Charrett (Ludovic Mercier), Albert Rémy (Clément), Andrée Clément (Isabelle), Serge Andréguy (N’a qu’un sou)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 105 min; B&W
  • Aka: Devil’s Daughter

 
Summary
After a bank robbery, the gangster Saget is on the run from the police.  A passing motorist, Ludovic Mercier, offers him a lift which he accepts gratefully.  Mercier is on the way back to his home town, Chatenay-la-Rivière, having spent the last 25 years in America, where he amassed a fortune.   Half-drunk, Mercier manages to crash his car into a bridge.  Saget, unharmed, takes Mercier’s identity papers and his money before dumping the body into the river.  He then falls unconscious.  When he comes to, Saget finds himself in a doctor’s clinic in Chatenay.  To his surprise, the doctor who tends to his injuries appears keen that he should get away with passing himself off as Mercier, even though he knows this is not his true identity.  The only person in the town who dislikes Saget is Isabelle, known as the Devil’s Daughter because her father was a crook.  Saget soon realises the doctor’s motive for protecting him...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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