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L'échafaud peut attendre
Film / 1949

L'échafaud peut attendre

Directed by Albert Valentin

★ 8.0/10Audience rating

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.

The story

A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.

Cast

Jany HoltHélène Bonnard Paul BernardSerge Ullrich Jean DesaillyMichel Vincent Jean DebucourtDoctor Jeannin Charles LemontierInspector Sorbier Junie AstorMaître Fontanie, lawyer Robert BalpoEmployee Claude Bertrand Fernand BlotPolice inspector Jean BrunelPresident of the Assizes Lucien DesagneauxPharmacist Colette GeorgesFlowergirl
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Pierre LabryCafe owner Françoise Lauby Palmyre LevasseurLandlady René MarcPolice officer Maurice MarceauPlasterer Franck Maurice Albert MichelMale nurse Georges PaulaisGeneral Counsel Raymondis Marcel Rouzé Georges SauvalMover Raymond SoukoffPolice inspector Eugène Stuber Jean SylvainWitness

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