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.Bessy & Chirat p.133 It was based on a novel of the same title by Charles Robert-Dumas.Goble p.800 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 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
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Bibliography 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.
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