Night Express (French: Rapide de nuit) is a 1948 French crime drama film directed by Marcel Blistène and starring Roger Pigaut, Sophie Desmarets and Paul Demange.Bessy & Chirat p.463 The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Synopsis A woman tricks an apparently naïve young man into carrying a suitcase full of stolen goods into a railway station. The young man substitutes the case for another, however, to avoid being an accomplice.
Cast Roger Pigaut as Robert Sophie Desmarets as Simone Paul Demange as M. Grand Jean Brochard as L'inspecteur Verdier Jane Marken as Mme Louis Maurice Teynac as Georges Sommer Michel Ardan as Un des deux complices Paul Azaïs as Un inspecteur Hélène Dassonville as La caissière Louis Florencie as Le garçon Gabrielle Fontan as La mère aux chats Jean Gaven as Un des deux complices Henry Murray as Le directeur
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Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, 1940–1950. Pygmalion, 1986
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