The Last Turning (French: Le Dernier tournant) is a 1939 French film noir directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Fernand Gravey, Corinne Luchaire and Michel Simon. Walker-Morrison p.96 It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. The screenplay was written by Charles Spaak and Henry Torrès, based on the 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. It was the first screen adaptation of the novel followed by the 1943 film Ossessione and The Postman Always Rings Twice in 1946.
Cast
Fernand Gravey as Frank Michel Simon as Nick Marino Corinne Luchaire as Cora Marino Marcel Vallée as Le juge Robert Le Vigan as Le cousin maître-chanteur Etienne Decroux as Le patron du bistrot Florence Marly as Madge, la dompteuse Jean-François Martial as L'architecte Pierre Labry as Un camionneur Georges Péclet as L'assureur Auguste Bovério as Le prêtre Pierre Sergeol as L'avocat René Bergeron as Le commissaire Marcel Duhamel as Le monsieur pressé Charles Blavette as Un camionneur Serge Nadaud as Le motard Georges Douking as Un joueur Fred Pasquali as Un joueur Georges Paulais as Le greffier Yvonne Yma as La femme
References
Bibliography Hodgson, Michael. Patricia Roc. Author House, 2013. Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
External links
The Last Turning at the British Film Institute Le Dernier tournant at filmsdefrance.com