The Day and the Hour (1963)

6.8/10 110 min Drama Action War

Overview

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?

Cast

Simone Signoret

Thérèse Dutheil

Stuart Whitman

le capitaine Allan Morley

Geneviève Page

Agathe

Michel Piccoli

Antoine

Reggie Nalder

le policier allemand

Billy Kearns

Pat Riley

Marcel Bozzuffi

l'inspecteur Lerat

Henri Virlogeux

Legendre, le pharmacien

Hubert de Lapparent

Jasseron

Maurice Garrel

Le chef milicien (uncredited)

Marcel Gassouk

Un paysan (uncredited)

Yvette Etiévant

La caissière de la pharmacie

Pierre Dux

Le commissaire divisionnaire Marboz - de la Police Judiciaire

Clara Gansard

La maquisarde

Colette Castel

Lucie

Jacques Herlin

Mark Burns

Un aviateur anglais

Hénia Suchar

La jeune résistante en bleu

Carl Studer

Maj. Gordon

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