Alert in the South
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1953
French release15/11/1953
Runtime
1h 50m
Synopsis
Two young French officers rescue a dying parachutist in the Sahara desert. They return to Marrakech and are preparing to return to France, when one of them is mysteroiusly murdered. His friend Jean Pasquier decides on revenge, and to this end, inspite of his pleading of his fiance Michèle, he joins up with the Information Services, so as to find out for himselt the secret organisation is that did for his friend. He succeeds in making friends with a dancer whom he suspects to be in the pay of spying organisation, and lets himself be taken to a ruined village in the extreme South where a professor in the pay of a pwerful rival, is studying atomic secrets which enable planes in flight to be destroyed.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (19)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Les Films Neptune, Sirius
- Foreign production company : Fono Roma
- French distribution : Sirius
Full credits (14)
- Executive Producers : Lucien Masson, Antoine De Rouvre, Jean-Devaivre
- Screenwriters : Jean-Devaivre, Jean-Paul Le Chanois
- Dialogue Writers : Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean-Devaivre
- Director of Photography : Lucien Joulin
- Music Composer : Joseph Kosma
- Editor : Raymond Lamy
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Calvet
- Foreign Producer : Salvatore Persichetti
- Author of original work : André-Paul Antoine
- Voice : Claire Guibert
- Production manager : Simone Devaivre
- Production Designer : Robert Hubert
- Still Photographer : André Garimond
- Location Manager : Irénée Leriche
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Adventure
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1953
- French release : 15/11/1953
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 8556
- Visa issue date : 09/11/1953
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
