A Man to Kill

1937 film

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.

## Cast

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* 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

## References

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1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.133
2. ^ Goble p.800

## Bibliography

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* 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.

## External links

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* A Man to Kill at IMDb

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Films directed by Léon Mathot

* In the Shadow of the Harem (1928)
* Instinct (1930)
* Passport 13.444 (1931)
* Kiss Me (1932)
* Count Obligado (1935)
* The Mascot (1935)
* Wolves Between Them (1936)
* A Man to Kill (1937)
* Chéri-Bibi (1938)
* The Rebel (1938)
* Immediate Call (1939)
* Sacred Woods (1939)
* Hangman's Noose (1940)
* The Man Without a Name (1943)
* Night Warning (1946)
* The Tragic Dolmen (1948)
* The Dancer of Marrakesh (1949)
* My Childish Father (1953)

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