The Crew (1935 film)

1935 film

The Crew

Directed by| Anatole Litvak
Written by| Joseph Kessel
Anatole Litvak
Based on| The Crew by Joseph Kessel
Produced by| Bernard Natan
Emile Natan
Simon Schiffrin
Starring| Annabella
Charles Vanel
Jean Murat
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Cinematography| Armand Thirard
Edited by| Henri Rust
Music by| Arthur Honegger
Jean Wiener

Production
company

Pathé-Natan

Distributed by| Pathé Consortium Cinéma

Release date

* 22 October 1935 (1935-10-22)

Running time

| 111 minutes
Country| France
Language| French

The Crew (French: L'Équipage) is a 1935 French war drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat and Jean-Pierre Aumont.[1] [2] It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location at an airfield in Mourmelon-le-Petit.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Lucien Carré. It is also known by the alternative title Flight Into Darkness.

The film is based on the 1923 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel, which had previously been made into a 1928 French silent film The Crew. Litvak remade his own film as The Woman I Love for his first Hollywood production in 1937.[4]

## Synopsis

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In 1918 during the First World War, a French pilot has an affair with a married woman without realising that she is the wife of one of his colleagues from his new squadron.

## Cast

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* Annabella as Hélène / Denise
* Charles Vanel as Le lieutenant Maury
* Jean Murat as Le capitaine Thélis
* Jean-Pierre Aumont as L'aspirant Jean Herbillon
* Daniel Mendaille as Deschamps
* Raymond Cordy as Mathieu - l'ordonnance
* Suzanne Desprès as Madame Herbillon
* Alexandre Rignault as L'amant de la patronne
* Pierre Labry as Marbot
* Geo Laby as Mézières
* René Bergeron as Fortin
* Jean Heuzé as Berthier
* Roland Toutain as Narbonne - un aviateur
* Yves Forget as Un officier
* Serge Grave as Georges Herbillon
* André Lannes as Officier
* Guy Sloux as Michel
* Jean Davy as Brulard
* Claire Franconnay as La patronne du beuglant
* Raymond Aimos as Le crieur de journaux
* Paul Amiot as Le soldat du 54e
* Vera Baranovskaya as La veuve
* Viviane Romance as Une girl

## References

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1. ^ Crisp p.137
2. ^ Capua p.127
3. ^ Capua p.128
4. ^ Goble p.258

## Bibliography

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* Capua, Michelangelo. Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2015.
* Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
* Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

## External links

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* The Crew at IMDb

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Films directed by Anatole Litvak

* Dolly Gets Ahead (1930)
* Calais-Dover (1931)
* No More Love (1931)
* Lilac (1932)
* The Song of Night (1932)
* Tell Me Tonight (1932)
* The Old Devil (1933)
* One Night's Song (1933)
* Sleeping Car (1933)
* The Crew (1935)
* Mayerling (1936)
* The Woman I Love (1937)
* Tovarich (1937)
* The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
* The Sisters (1938)
* Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
* Castle on the Hudson (1940)
* All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
* City for Conquest (1940)
* Out of the Fog (1941)
* Blues in the Night (1941)
* This Above All (1942)
* The Nazis Strike (1943)
* Divide and Conquer (1943)
* The Battle of Russia (1943)
* The Battle of China (1944)
* War Comes to America (1945)
* The Long Night (1947)
* Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
* The Snake Pit (1948)
* Decision Before Dawn (1951)
* Act of Love (1953)
* The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
* Anastasia (1956)
* Mayerling (1957)
* The Journey (1959)
* Goodbye Again (1961)
* Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
* The Night of the Generals (1967)
* The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970)

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