95 minutes
5/16/1942
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
Raimu
as Maître Hector Loursat
Juliette Faber
as Nicole Loursat
Gabrielle Fontan
as Fine
Héléna Manson
as Madame Manu
Tania Fédor
as Madame Marthe Dossin
Marguerite Ducouret
as Angèle
Jean Tissier
as Ducup
Jacques Baumer
as Maître Gérard Rogissart
Noël Roquevert
as Le commissaire Binet
André Reybaz
as Émile Manu
Jacques Grétillat
as Le président du tribunal des assises
Lucien Coëdel
as Jo, le patron du "Boxing Bar"
Marc Doelnitz
as Edmond Dossin
Jacques Denoël
as Marcel Destrivaux
Pierre Ringel
as Daillat
Marcel Mouloudji
as Ephraïm (Amédé) Luska
Raymond Cordy
as L'huissier aux Assises
Paul Barge
as Le gardien de prison (uncredited)
Lucien Bryonne
as Un policier chez Manu (uncredited)
Martine Carol
as Une spectatrice aux Assises (uncredited)
Jacques Courtin
as Un garde aux Assises (uncredited)
Raymond Dardelin
as Un garde aux Assises (uncredited)
Henri de Livry
as Monsieur Georges, le libraire (uncredited)
Max Delty
as Destrivaux père (uncredited)
Arthur Devère
as Le docteur (uncredited)
Lise Donat
as Adèle (uncredited)
Paul Faivre
as L'agent (uncredited)
Fernand Flament
as Un policier chez Manu (uncredited)
Pierre Fresnay
as Le narrateur (uncredited)
Georges Gosset
as (uncredited)
Daniel Gélin
as (uncredited)
Langlois
as L'oncle Daillat (uncredited)
Marcel Lestan
as Le gendarme (uncredited)
Yette Lucas
as Une mère au tribunal (uncredited)
Franck Maurice
as Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
Bernard Noël
as (uncredited)
Jean Négroni
as (uncredited)
Claire Olivier
as Madame Daillat (uncredited)
Max Revor
as Le greffier aux Assises (uncredited)
Henri Roy
as Daillat père (uncredited)
Maurice Salabert
as (uncredited)
Yvonne Scheffer
as La Gourde (uncredited)
Simone Sylvestre
as Une journaliste (uncredited)
Génia Vaury
as Madame Laurence Rogissart (uncredited)
Charles Vissières
as Le greffier de Ducup (uncredited)