''Voyage Without Hope'' (French: ''Voyage sans espoir'') is a French 1943 French crime film, crime drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Simone Renant, Jean Marais and Paul Bernard (actor), Paul Bernard. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It has been classified as a film noir with an opening that recalls the pre-war poetic realist film ''La Bête Humaine (film), The Human Beast''.Walker-Morrison p.35

Synopsis

A bank clerk steals money and plans to run off to Argentina on a cargo ship, freighter. On the train to the port he encounters a criminal just released from prison who takes him for a naïve, wealthy young man and persuades his old girlfriend, nightclub singer Marie-Ange, to seduce him. However, she falls in love with the essentially honest boy and as the net closes in against him from both the criminals and the law she ultimately sacrifices herself for him.

Cast

* Simone Renant as Marie-Ange * Jean Marais as Alain Ginestier * Paul Bernard (actor), Paul Bernard as Pierre Gohelle * Jean Brochard as Inspector Chapelin * Louis Salou as Inspector Sorbier * Ky Duyen as Li-Fang * Lucien Coëdel as Philippe Dejanin * Marcel Maupi as Le barman * Clary Monthal as Laura - l'habilleuse

References

Bibliography

*Walker-Morrison, Deborah. ''Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

External links

* 1943 films French drama films 1940s French-language films Films directed by Christian-Jaque French black-and-white films Remakes of French films 1943 drama films 1940s French films {{1940s-France-film-stub