Personal Column | |
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Directed by | Robert Siodmak |
Produced by |
André Paulvé Michel Safra |
Written by |
Jacques Companéez Simon Gantillon Ernst Neubach |
Starring |
Maurice Chevalier Pierre Renoir Marie Déa Erich von Stroheim |
Music by | Michel Michelet |
Cinematography |
Marcel Fradetal Michel Kelber Jacques Mercanton |
Edited by | Yvonne Martin |
Production
company |
Spéva Films
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Distributed by | DisCina |
Release date
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Running time
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106 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Personal Column (French: Pièges) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir, Marie Déa and Erich von Stroheim. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Lured, an American re-make, directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Lucille Ball, was released in 1947.
After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer. She meets and falls in love with the charming nightclub owner and womanizer Robert Fleury, but clues begin to appear that suggest that it is he who is the murderer.