Taglines: In a World filled with tension, and in the twilight of her youth she clung to her American!
Le Jour et l’Heure movie storyline. It’s the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren’t running from the village where she has gone to visit her father’s grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding.
An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
Le Jour et l’Heure (English: The Day and the Hour) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Reggie Nalder, Billy Kearns, Marcel Bozzuffi, Colette Castel, Jacques Herlin, Mark Burns and Roger Kemp. Set in occupied France in 1944 a French woman finds herself helping a downed American pilot as he searches for a way to leave the country.
Le Jour et l’Heure (1963)
Directed by: René Clément
Starring: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page, Michel Piccoli, Reggie Nalder, Billy Kearns, Marcel Bozzuffi, Colette Castel, Jacques Herlin, Mark Burns, Roger Kemp
Screenplay by: René Clément, Roger Vailland, Andre Barret
Production Design by: Bernard Evein
Cinematography by: Henri Decaë
Film Editing by: Fedora Zincone
Music by: Claude Bolling
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (United States)
Release Date: April 5, 1963 (France), February 19, 1964 (United States)
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