''Wolves Between Them'' (French: ''Les loups entre eux'') is a 1936 French spy

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directed by

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and starring Roger Duchesne,

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and Renée Saint-Cyr.Crisp p.322 The film's sets were designed by the

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Jacques Colombier. It is a sequel to the 1935 film '' Second Bureau''. Two further entries in the series '' A Man to Kill'' (1937) and '' Captain Benoît'' (1938) were released. The film was remade as the 1939 British release '' Secret Journey''.

Synopsis

A design for a new French

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has been stolen from

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by a German spy. Captain Benoît of the Deuxième Bureau is sent to

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-ruled

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to try and recover it.

Cast

* Roger Duchesne as Le capitaine Benoît *

as Le commissaire Raucourt * Renée Saint-Cyr as Nicole Servigne *

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as Gertrude Weygelmann * Pierre Renoir as Gottfried Welter * Gina Manès as Gina * Laure Diana as Natacha * Foun-Sen as La domestique de Benoît * Jean Debucourt as Le lieutenant von Brenner * Pierre Finaly as Le juge d'instruction *

Marcel Vallée Marcel Vallée (15 January 1880, in Paris – 31 October 1957, in Fontaine-le-Port) was a French actor, primarily of the theater. He began working in films with Max Linder in 1906. He appeared in some American films. Selected filmography * '' ...

as Le directeur de la prison *

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as Le garçon du Vaterland * Pierre Magnier as Le colonel Guéraud *

Bernard Lancret Bernard Lancret (4 September 1912 – 5 September 1983) was a French film actor. He appeared in over thirty films between 1935 and 1956 in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Franz Schubert in the 1940 film '' Séré ...

as Max von Raugwitz * Camille Bert as Weygelmann * Georges Prieur as Le général von Raugwitz * Robert Ralphy as L'avocat de Brenner

References

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

External links

* 1936 films French spy films 1930s spy films 1930s thriller films French thriller films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Léon Mathot French black-and-white films 1930s French films Films set in Berlin French sequel films Films scored by Jean Lenoir Films with screenplays by Charles Spaak Films based on French novels Films based on works by Charles Robert-Dumas {{1930s-France-film-stub