Forfaiture Drama comedy - 1937 - B/W
Director : Marcel L'HERBIER
99 minutes
Visa # 1 084
Isan # 0000-0001-8228-0000-S-0000-0000-R
Production : Les Films du Panthéon
Distribution : Les Films du Jeudi
With : Lise DELAMARE, Louis JOUVET, Sessue HAYAKAWA, Victor FRANCEN, Sylvia BATAILLE, Lucas GRIDOUX, Madeleine SOLOGNE, Eve FRANCIS, Lucien NAT
Screenplay by Jacques Companeez, based upon "The Cheat", by Hector Turnbull.
Remake of the 1915 Cecil B. de Mille's film.
Restoration in 2 K with the support of the Centre National du Cinema (Paris)
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SUMMARY
Denise has gone to meet her husband in Mongolia, where he works as an engineer. One evening she loses a large sum of money gambling and borrows from the prince Hu-Long, who makes advances which she rebuffs. The prince avenges himself by sabotaging her husband's work. In the course of a dramatic confrontation, Denise kills him. Remake of C. B. De Mille’s 1915 classic, The Cheat. |
