Knave of Hearts
Synopsis
André Ripois, a philanderer in pursuit of love and riches, is breaking up with his wife, Catherine, over his attentions to her best friend Patricia. While Catherine is out arranging the divorce, Andre, just to keep in practice, hits on the girl upstairs, Diana and then turns his attention back to Patricia, who he tricks into having dinner at his flat on the pretext that Catherine will be there. When he cannot make any progress with her via his usual tactics, he tries to arouse her pity be telling her of his past. In his early, impoverished days in London, he made love to his boss Anne but her dreadful cooking drove him away. Next came Norah who he picked up on a bus and took to his flat and told her about his make-believe inheritance, but she insisted on marriage first, which was not in his plans. Marcelle, a French woman living in Soho, put him on his feet with money, and he repaid her by stealing fifty pounds and running off. He met the wealthy Catherine at his flat where she came t...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Transcontinental Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Paramount Pictures S.A. (Catalogue de droits)
- French distribution : Cinédis
Full credits (9)
- Adaptation : Hugh Mills, René Clément
- Dialogue Writers : René Clément, Hugh Mills, Raymond Queneau
- Director of Photography : Oswald Morris
- Music Composer : Roman Vlad
- Assistant directors : Leonard Keigel, Claude Clément
- Editor : Françoise Javet
- Author of original work : Louis Hémon
- Producer : Paul Graetz
- Production Manager : Léopold Schlosberg
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French, English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
