A Man to Kill

A Man to Kill
Directed by	Léon Mathot
Written by	Carlo Rim
Based on	A Man to Kill by Charles Robert-Dumas
Produced by	Antoine de Rouvre Jacques Schwob-d'Héricourt
Starring	Jean Murat Jules Berry Viviane Romance
Cinematography	René Gaveau
Edited by	Jacques Desagneaux
Music by	Jean Lenoir
Production company	Compagnie Française Cinématographique
Distributed by	La Société des films Sirius
Release date	25 February 1937 (1937-02-25)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

A Man to Kill (French: L'Homme à abattre) is a 1937 French spy thriller film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Jean Murat, Jules Berry and Viviane Romance.^[1] It was based on a novel of the same title by Charles Robert-Dumas.^[2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was the third in a series of four films, followed by Captain Benoît in 1938.

• Jean Murat as Le capitaine Benoît
• Jules Berry as Le commissaire Raucourt
• Roger Karl as Le commissaire Werter
• Viviane Romance as Hilda
• Raymond Aimos as Vic
• Bernard Lancret as Stéphane Gietzinger
• Madeleine Robinson as Andrée Ruval
• Pierre Magnier as Le colonel Guéraud
• Georges Prieur as Le général von Raugwitz
• Jean-Max as L'agent von Haidingen

• Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
• Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

• A Man to Kill at IMDb

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