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Eight Men in a Castle

Directed by Richard Pottier

CrimeDrama
19421h 33m

Overview

The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...

Cast

René Dary

René Dary

Mr. Paladine

Jacqueline Gauthier

Jacqueline Gauthier

Mrs. Paladine

Louis Salou

Louis Salou

Mr. Delaunay

Aline Carola

Hélène de Chanceau

Georges Grey

Georges Grey

Alain

Roger Champi

Firmin

Jean Meyer

Jean Meyer

Notary's nephew

Jean Daurand

Jean Daurand

Acrobat

Colette Régis

Colette Régis

Mrs. de Chanceau

André Carnège

André Carnège

Investigating judge

Pierre Palau

Pierre Palau

Notary

Maurice Pierrat

Maître d'hôtel