''The Lacquered Box'' (French: ''Le Coffret de laque'') is a 1932 French

crime film Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), dr ...

directed by Jean Kemm and starring Danielle Darrieux. It was based on

Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving ...

's play '' Black Coffee'' which had been turned into a British film the previous year. ''Cinèopse'' praised the acting.

Plot

Cast

In alphabetical order * René Alexandre * Harry Arbell * Danielle Darrieux as Henriette Stenay * Maxime Desjardins * Gaston Dupray * Alice Field * Maurice Varny *

Marcel Vibert Marcel Vibert (2 November 1883 – 11 June 1959) was a French film actor. Vibert worked primarily in the French film industry, but in the late 1920s he also appeared in several British silent films including ''Moulin Rouge (1928 film), Moulin Ro ...

References

Bibliography

* Philippe Rège. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1932 crime films French crime films 1932 films Films directed by Jean Kemm French films based on plays Films based on Hercule Poirot books French multilingual films French black-and-white films 1932 multilingual films 1930s French-language films 1930s French films Films scored by Henri Verdun French-language crime films {{1930s-crime-film-stub