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The Man from London or The London Man (French: L'homme de Londres) is a 1943 French thriller film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Fernand Ledoux, Suzy Prim and Jules Berry. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, which was later turned into the 1947 British film Temptation Harbour.[1] It was shot at the Buttes-Chaumont Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff.

The Man from London
Directed by	Henri Decoin
Written by	Charles Exbrayat Henri Decoin
Based on	The Man from London by Georges Simenon
Produced by	François Chavane
Starring	Fernand Ledoux Suzy Prim Jules Berry
Cinematography	Paul Cotteret
Edited by	Suzanne de Troeye
Music by	Georges Van Parys Marcel Landowski
Production company	S.P.D.F.
Distributed by	Éclair-Journal
Release date	20 October 1943
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Synopsis

A railway worker at a ferry port discovers a suitcase containing a large sum of money, the proceeds of a crime recently committed in London. He chooses to keep it rather than turn it over to the police, but it ends up luring him into a downwards spiral that eventually ends in murder.

Cast

• Fernand Ledoux as Maloin
• Suzy Prim as Camélia
• Jules Berry as Brown
• Mony Dalmès as Henriette Maloin
• Blanche Montel as Madame Brown
• René Génin as Maënnec
• Made Siamé as La patronne
• Marcelle Monthil as Rose
• René Bergeron as Auguste
• Gaston Modot as Teddy
• Alexandre Rignault as Keridan
• Jean Brochard as L'inspecteur Mollison
• Héléna Manson as Julie Malouin

See also

• Temptation Harbour (1947)
• The Man from London (2007)

References

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

• The Man from London at IMDb

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