Personal Column
Personal Column is a 1939 French thriller film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa and Erich von Stroheim. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Lured, an American re-make, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lucille Ball, was released in 1947.
Plot
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man whom she met through a personal column ad, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer. She meets and falls in love with the charming nightclub owner and womanizer Robert Fleury, but clues begin to appear that suggest that it is he who is the murderer.
Cast
- Albert Malbert
- André Brunot
- André Carnège
- André Nicolle
- André Numès Fils
- André Roanne
- Charles Vissières
- Erich von Stroheim
- Georges Malkine
- Henri Crémieux
- Jacques Beauvais
- Jacques Varennes
- Jean Brochard
- Jean Témerson
- Julienne Paroli
- Léon Arvel
- Madeleine Geoffroy
- Mady Berry
- Marie Déa
- Maurice Chevalier
- Max Dalban
- Milly Mathis
- Pierre Labry
- Pierre Magnier
- Pierre Renoir
- Raymond Rognoni
- René Worms
- Robert Berri
- Robert Seller
- Valaida Snow
- Yvonne Yma
More details
| author | Jacques Companéez |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Paris |
| director | Robert Siodmak |
| editor | Yvonne Martin |
| genre | crime drama thriller |
| keywords | murder nightclub owner personal advertisement personal column taxi dancer track down |
| musicBy | Michel Michelet |
| producer | André Paulvé Michel Safra |
| publisher | DisCina |
| theme | noir |