Taglines: A frankly shocking film about a man’s obsession with his mistress.
In Case of Adversity movie storyline. A petty criminal aged 22, the attractive Yvette is caught after robbing a watchmaker’s shop with a toy pistol and felling his old wife. To defend her, she asks for André Gobillot, a leading member of the Paris bar. Telling him she has no money to pay him, she lifts her skirt to show him her goods. Accepting the deal, he arranges a false witness and after getting her acquitted instals her in a small hotel.
His childless wife Viviane realises what is happening but hopes the improbable affair will not last. Knowing nothing about the girl, Gobillot has first to wean her off drink and drugs. He also doesn’t know that she is still entertaining her current lover, an impoverished medical student called Mazetti. As Gobillot’s obsession grows, his wife gets more alarmed and an enquiry is opened into his bribing the witness who lied.
When Yvette tells him she is pregnant, he is overjoyed and books a holiday for the two of them. Before they leave, Yvette cannot resist one last visit to Mazetti’s sordid room where, enraged with jealousy, he cuts her throat. It is not stated whether Gobillot’s wife will take him back or if he will still be able to practise law.
In Case of Adversity (French: En Cas de Malheur) is a 1958 French drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, starring Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot and Edwige Feuillère. It was released as Love Is My Profession in the United States. It tells the story of a married lawyer who rigs a trial to acquit a young female criminal he has become obsessed with, even to the point of imagining they might have a life together and start a family.
The screenplay was written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost after the novel In Case of Emergency by Georges Simenon. The film was released in France on September 17, 1958. The film was thirteenth most popular film of 1958 in France, recording admissions of 3,152,082.
In Case of Adversity (1958)
Directed by: Claude Autant-Lara
Starring: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger, Madeleine Barbulée, Gabrielle Fontan, Jacques Clancy, Annick Allières, Franco Interlenghi, Julien Bertheau
Screenplay by: Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost
Production Design by: Max Douy
Cinematography by: Jacques Natteau
Film Editing by: Madeleine Gug
Costume Design by: Pierre Balmain, Louis Féraud
Makeup Department: Odette Berroyer, Yvonne Fortuna
Music by: René Cloërec
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Cinédis (France), Miracle Films (UK), Kingsley-International Pictures (USA)
Release Date: September 17, 1958
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