The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Synopsis
Imbued with the spirit of the left-wing political movement, Popular Front, which would have a major political victory that year, the film chronicles the story of M. Lange (René Lefèvre), a mild-mannered clerk at a publishing company who dreams of writing Western stories. He gets his chance when Batala (Jules Berry), the salacious head of the company, fakes his own death and the abandoned workers decide to form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim — whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. At the same time, Lange and his neighbor, Valentine (Florelle), fall in love.
When Batala returns from the "dead", intending to reclaim the publishing company, Lange shoots and kills him (the "crime" of the title). Lange and Valentine flee to escape the country, stopping at an inn near the Belgian border. Here, Valentine tells Lange's story to a group of the inn's patrons, who had recognized Lange as the "murderer on the...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (24)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Films Obéron
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Warner Bros. (France)
Full credits (14)
- Adaptation : Jacques Prévert
- Screenwriters : Jean Renoir, Jacques Prévert
- Dialogue Writer : Jacques Prévert
- Director of Photography : Jean Bachelet
- Music Composers : Jean Wiener, Joseph Kosma
- Assistant Director : Jean Castanier
- Editors : Marguerite Houllé-Renoir, Marthe Huguet
- Sound recordists : Louis Bogé, Roger Loisel
- Producer : André Halley Des Fontaines
- Original idea : Jean Castanier
- Line Producer : Jean Renoir
- Continuity supervisor : Marguerite Houllé-Renoir
- Production Designer : Robert Gys
- Still Photographer : Jean Bachelet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Crime/thriller
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Yes
