Midnight Tradition (French: La tradition de minuit) is a 1939 French mystery thriller film directed by Roger Richebé and starring Viviane Romance, Georges Flamant and Marcel Dalio.[1] [2] It is based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Pierre Mac Orlan. It was shot at the Neuilly Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors René Renoux and Roland Quignon.

Midnight Tradition
Directed byRoger Richebé
Written byJean Aurenche
René Jolivet
Roger Richebé
Based onMidnight Tradition by Pierre Mac Orlan
Produced byRoger Richebé
StarringViviane Romance
Georges Flamant
Marcel Dalio
CinematographyArmand Thirard
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byJean Lenoir
Production
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Les Films Roger Richebé
Distributed byLa Société des Films Sirius
Release date
  • 22 April 1939 (1939-04-22)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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Bibliography

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  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
  • Spicer, Andrew & Hanson, Helen. A Companion to Film Noir. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
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