La Loi du Nord

La Loi du nord

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jacques Feyder
Produced by Roland Tual
Written by Jacques Feyder
Alexandre Arnoux
Charles Spaak
Maurice Constantin-Weyer (novel)
Starring Michèle Morgan
Pierre Richard-Willm
Charles Vanel
Music by Louis Beydts
Cinematography

Jean Charpentier

Paul Fabian
Roger Hubert
Edited by Roger Spiri-Mercaton
Production
company
Filmos
Distributed by DisCina
Release dates
1939
Running time
95 minutes
Country France
Language French

La Loi du nord is a 1939 French adventure drama film directed by Jacques Feyder who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel "Telle qu'elle était de son vivant" by Maurice Constantin-Weyer. The films stars Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm and Charles Vanel. It tells the story of an escaped prisoner, his woman secretary and two guardsmen in the Far North. It competed for the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

Robert Shaw manslaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada. But the corporal Dalrymple discovers their identity and hunts them, until Jacqueline dies exhausted by such a hard expedition.

Cast

References

  1. "Loi du nord (La)". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.

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