Conflit (1938)

Director:

Léonide Moguy

Writers:

Charles Gombault (dialogue)
Gina Kaus (novel)

Release Date:

8 October 1939 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel

Cast

Annie Ducaux	...	Catherine Lafont
Marguerite Pierry	...	Marguerite Angel
Armand Bernard	...	Le greffier / Secretary
Raymond Rouleau	...	Michel Lafont
Claude Dauphin	...	Gérard
Roger Duchesne	...	Robert
Marcel Dalio	...	L'usurier / The Money-Lender (as Dalio)
Pauline Carton	...	Pauline
Léon Belières	...	Buisson
Jacques Copeau	...	Judge Brissac
Corinne Luchaire	...	Claire

Also Known As:

Affair Lafont
Conflict
Les soeurs Garnier (France) (working title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Company:

Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinématographiques (CIPRA)

The great lie

A subject which would be used and used in the forties in the American melodramas such as Bette Davis/Edmund Goulding's "the great lie" and "the old maid" or Olivia De Havilland's " To each his own" .

Girl (Claire) gets pregnant by a playboy short of the readies .Her sister Catherine who cannot have a child decides to adopt the boy unbeknown to her husband (gone to India or somewhere else) "Conflit" is a long flashback:Claire who wants her child back again ,tries to kill her sister .She remembers ...This is moderately entertaining ,but at a time when the French cinema was at its peak,it's nothing but another melodrama.Starring Corinne Luchaire whose fate was tragic and Annie Ducaux,from La Comédie Française.

After "le Dernier Tournant " (the first version of ' the postman always rings twice" the part of Cora) and two other films ,Luchaire's career ended in 1940.Her father , a collaborator ,was shot at the Liberation.She died from TB in 1951;she was only 29.