''La Loi du nord'' (, "The Law of the North"; also called ''La Piste du Nord'', "The Northern Trail") is a 1939 French adventure drama film directed by

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who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel "Telle qu'elle était de son vivant" by Maurice Constantin-Weyer. The films stars

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and

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. It tells the story of an escaped prisoner, his woman secretary and two guardsmen in the Far North. It was entered for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 1939

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Plot

Robert Shaw manslaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French

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who takes them for film-makers, they hide in

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. But the corporal Dalrymple discovers their identity and hunts them, until Jacqueline dies exhausted by such a hard expedition.

Cast

as Jacqueline *

as Robert Shaw *

as Corporal Dalrymple *

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as the Advocate *

Youcca Troubetzkov Youcca Troubetzkoy (russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Трубецко́й; 12 December 1905 – 22 April 1992), also credited as Youcca Troubetzkov and Nicolas Barclay, was an American actor. He was a member of the princely Trubetskoy ...

as Ellis *

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as Daugh

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''La Loi du nord''
at DvdToile 1939 films Films directed by Jacques Feyder Northern (genre) films French black-and-white films French adventure drama films 1930s adventure drama films 1939 drama films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub