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''Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?'' (also known as ''Why Do You Come So Late?'' or US title: ''Too Late to Love'') is a 1959 French
drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...
film directed by Henri Decoin and starring
Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan (; née Simone Renée Roussel; 29 February 1920 – 20 December 2016) was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She is considered to have been one of the g ...
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Henri Vidal Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor. Film career Henri Lucien Raymond VidalSource Les Gens du cinéma/ref> was first noticed after he won the "Apollo of 1939" contest in Paris. He was spotted by Éd ...
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Plot

Reporter-photographer Walter Hermelin meets Catherine Ferrer, a lawyer who must plead in a libel suit against a wine company. She asks Walter to help her get exhibits incriminating the wine merchants. The reporter agrees and takes frightening photographs showing how poor people are incited to drink.


Cast

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Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan (; née Simone Renée Roussel; 29 February 1920 – 20 December 2016) was a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades in both French cinema and Hollywood features. She is considered to have been one of the g ...
as Maître Catherine Ferrer *
Henri Vidal Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor. Film career Henri Lucien Raymond VidalSource Les Gens du cinéma/ref> was first noticed after he won the "Apollo of 1939" contest in Paris. He was spotted by Éd ...
as Walter Hermelin *
Francis Blanche François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Blanche was ...
as Camille - le patron du bistrot *
Marc Cassot Marc Cassot (1923–2016) was a French film and television actor. Ince p.161 He was also a prominent voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in France. Selected filmography * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * ''Les Amants du pont Saint-Jean'' (1 ...
as Le psychiatre de la clinique * Pierre-Louis as Le président du tribunal (as Pierre Louis) * Evelyne Aznavour as La secrétaire * Albert Médina as Joseph Ackermann (as Albert Medina) * Colette Richard as Julie - la patronne de l'hôtel de l'Espérance *
Geymond Vital Geymond Vital (24 January 1897 – 6 December 1987) was a French film, stage and television actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the ...
as Maître Augier - l'avocat général * Jean Claudio as Le grand-duc russe * Robert Dalban as Le camelot en vins * Claude Dauphin as René Dargillière


See also

* List of French films of 1959


References


External links

* 1959 films French drama films 1950s French-language films Films directed by Henri Decoin Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard 1950s French films 1959 drama films {{1950s-France-film-stub