Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? (also known as Why Do You Come So Late? or US title: Too Late to Love) is a 1959 French drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Michèle Morgan and Henri Vidal.[1]

Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?
Directed byHenri Decoin
Written byAlbert Valentin
(adaptation)
Michel Audiard
(dialogue)
Screenplay byHenri Decoin
Pierre Roustang
Based onClaude Brulé
(d'apres une idée)
Produced byRobert Chabert
Pierre Roustang
StarringMichèle Morgan
Henri Vidal
CinematographyChristian Matras
Edited byClaude Durand
Music byCharles Aznavour
Color processBlack and white
Production
companies
Ulysse Productions
France Cinéma Productions
Distributed byCinédis
Release date
  • 6 May 1959 (1959-05-06)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Plot edit

Reporter-photographer Walter Hermelin meets Catherine Ferrer, a lawyer who must plead in a libel suit against a wine company. She asks Walter to help her get exhibits incriminating the wine merchants. The reporter agrees and takes frightening photographs showing how poor people are incited to drink.

Cast edit

  • Michèle Morgan as Maître Catherine Ferrer
  • Henri Vidal as Walter Hermelin
  • Francis Blanche as Camille - le patron du bistrot
  • Marc Cassot as Le psychiatre de la clinique
  • Pierre-Louis as Le président du tribunal (as Pierre Louis)
  • Evelyne Aznavour as La secrétaire
  • Albert Médina as Joseph Ackermann (as Albert Medina)
  • Colette Richard as Julie - la patronne de l'hôtel de l'Espérance
  • Geymond Vital as Maître Augier - l'avocat général
  • Jean Claudio as Le grand-duc russe
  • Robert Dalban as Le camelot en vins
  • Claude Dauphin as René Dargillière

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Too Late to Love de Henri Decoin (1959)". en.unifrance.org. Retrieved 2024-04-09.

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