

The Day and the Hour
DirectorRené Clément
“In the twilight of her youth... she fought to hold her American!”
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?
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Cast

Simone Signoret
Thérèse Dutheil

Stuart Whitman
le capitaine Allan Morley

Geneviève Page
Agathe

Michel Piccoli
Antoine

Reggie Nalder
le policier allemand

Billy Kearns
Pat Riley

Marcel Bozzuffi
l'inspecteur Lerat

Henri Virlogeux
Legendre, le pharmacien
Hénia Sucha
la fille en bleu

Hubert de Lapparent
Jasseron

Maurice Garrel
Le chef milicien (uncredited)

Marcel Gassouk
Un paysan (uncredited)
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