Women's Prison (1938 film)
Women's Prison | |
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Directed by | Roger Richebé |
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Based on | Women's Prison by Francis Carco |
Produced by | Roger Richebé |
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Cinematography | Jean Isnard |
Edited by | |
Music by | Jean Lenoir |
Production company | Société des Films Roger Richebé |
Distributed by | Paris Cinéma Location |
Release date | 13 October 1938 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Women's Prison or Women's Prisons (French: Prisons de femmes) is a 1938 French drama film directed by Roger Richebé and starring Viviane Romance, Renée Saint-Cyr and Marguerite Deval.[1] Based on the 1930 novel of the same title by Francis Carco, it was remade twice as the 1947 Swedish film Two Women and the 1958 French film Women's Prison.[2] [3]
It was made at the in Paris with scenes also shot at the Convent of the Ursulines in Montpellier. The film's sets were designed by the art director Roland Quignon. Along with another contemporary film Prison Without Bars it portrayed the female inhabitants with sympathy. Both films were successful at the box office.[4] Despite its title, only a few scenes take place in prison and it mostly follows a character after she has been released from jail marries an industrialist and attempts to start a new life.
Cast[]
- Viviane Romance as Régine
- Renée Saint-Cyr as Juliette Régent
- Marguerite Deval as Madame Gaby
- Jean Worms as Max Régent
- Georges Flamant as Dédé
- as Alice
- Léonce Corne as Le directeur de la prison
- Marcel Delaître as Le commissaire de police
- as Le chirurgien
- as L'employé de l'hôpital
- Roland Armontel as Un domestique
- as Monsieur Chevrier
- as Madame Chevrier
- as Le marinier
- Paul Amiot as Le procureur
- Jacques Dumesnil as L'avocat
- as Le président des Assises
- as La surveillante-chef
- Yves Deniaud as Victor
- as Poloche
- as L'aumônier de la prison
- as L'infirmière
- Francis Carco as Self
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
- Larsson, Mariah & Marklund, Anders. Swedish Film: An Introduction and Reader. Nordic Academic Press, 2010.
External links[]
- French-language films
- 1938 films
- 1938 drama films
- French drama films
- French films
- 1930s French-language films
- Films directed by Roger Richebé
- French black-and-white films
- Films set in Paris
- Films based on French novels
- 1930s French film stubs