Dos trabajadores organizan un atraco para salir de la penuria económica. Sin embargo, el plan falla: un hombre resulta muerto y uno de ellos es arrestado. Años después, consigue huir de prisión y se oculta en una estación petrolífera custodiada por un matrimonio. Pronto surgirá un triángulo amoroso con fatales consecuencias.
Fred's friend
The survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush.
Boutillon
A ship, La Circé, has sunk and it might possibly be criminal . The vessel belongs to Storata ,who asks the insurance company for a hundred million Francs .Callaghan is working for them and he investigates on dry land and on the sea. The brilliant detective discovers that Storata has scuttled his ship himself to swindle insurance.
En una de sus primeras apariciones en una pantalla, una adolescente Brigitte Bardot (tan bella como joven, radiante y en bikini: prenda atrevidísima para la época) interpretaba a la hija de un farero que conoce a dos hombres que están en la costa buscando un tesoro.
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Terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un soldado norteamericano vuelve a la zona francesa, donde había luchado contra los nazis y robado una reliquia de una iglesia. De forma inesperada se verá envuelto en una caso de asesinato.
Mr. Durand is bored in his relationship. He takes a mistress but does not take long to return to his wife, a little because he is sad, a little also because he has affection for her, but above all out of selfish habit.
Bremond
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons. Duvivier's American film Lydia (1941) is, to some extent, a remake of this one.
Flash
An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
