Café de Paris (1938)

7.9/10 91 min Crime Mystery Thriller

Overview

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?

Cast

Jules Berry

Fleury

Véra Korène

Mme Geneviève Lambert

Jacques Baumer

Le commissaire de police

Pierre Brasseur

Le Rec

Julien Carette

Journaliste

Marcel Carpentier

Jean Coquelin

Arthur Devère

Maurice Escande

Le marquis de Pireli

Roger Gaillard

Jacques Grétillat

Janine Guise

Florence Marly

La maitresse de Lambert

Robert Pizani

Georges Prieur

Charles Redgie

Alexandre Rignault

Le tenancier du maison de tolérance et débiteur de Lambert

André Roanne

Le substitut du procureur, responsable de l'enquête

Henry Roussel

L'ambassadeur

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