Film

Eight Men in a Castle

1942 · 1h 33m · Crime · Drama

IMDb

6.0

The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...

René Dary

Mr. Paladine

Jacqueline Gauthier

Mrs. Paladine

Louis Salou

Mr. Delaunay

Aline Carola

Hélène de Chanceau

Georges Grey

Alain

Roger Champi

Firmin

Jean Meyer

Notary's nephew

Jean Daurand

Acrobat

Colette Régis

Mrs. de Chanceau

André Carnège

Investigating judge

Pierre Palau

Notary

Maurice Pierrat

Maître d'hôtel

Charles Lemontier

Cook

Jean Morel

Commander Dupuis

Gabrielle Fontan

Innkeeper

Eugène Frouhins

Gardener

• Richard PottierDirector
• Jean AurencheScreenplay
• Jean-Paul Le ChanoisScreenplay
• Jean KéryNovel
• Lucien MassonProducer
• Georges MillionDirector of Photography
• Germaine FouquetEditor

Release date

December 9, 1942

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Crime, Drama