''Crime on a Summer Morning'' (french: Par un beau matin d'été) is a 1965 French

crime film Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...

directed by Jacques Deray and starring

Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Paul Charles Belmondo (; 9 April 19336 September 2021) was a French actor and producer. Initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s, he was a major French film star for several decades from the 1960s onward. His best known credits ...

. The film is based on the 1963 novel ''One Bright Summer Morning'' written by James Hadley Chase.

Plot

Francis and his sister Monique have a shady method for earning money; Monique lures men into her bedroom and shortly after her brother ends up storming in angrily claiming that she is underage. The men then have to pay them off to keep their reputation. They receive an offer from the bandit Frank Kramer to join in on a kidnapping operation in Spain. Francis and Monique are promised a huge sum which means that they could retire from their petty con games. The target is the daughter of the American billionaire Van Willie. They manage to kidnap her and confine her in with a retired painter along with his wife and son in Andalusia. But not everything goes according to plan.

Cast

as Francis * Sophie Daumier as Monique * Geraldine Chaplin as Zelda * Gabriele Ferzetti as Vic Dermatt * Georges Géret as Zegetti *

Akim Tamiroff Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff, russian: Аким Михайлович Тамиров (born Hovakim Tamiryants; October 29, 1899 – September 17, 1972) was an Armenian-American actor of film, stage, and television. One of the premier character act ...

as Frank Kramer *

Claude Cerval Claude Cerval (21 February 1921 – 25 July 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than forty films from 1955 to 1971. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerval, Claude 1921 births 1972 deaths Male a ...

as Le pigeon * Adolfo Celi as Van Willie * Jacques Monod as Lucas *

Germaine Kerjean Germaine Kerjean (1893–1975) was a French stage and film actress.Crisp p.306 She spent a decade with the Comédie-Française. In films she frequently played character role A character actor is a supporting actor who plays unusual, interesti ...

as Mme. Zegetti *

Analía Gadé María Esther Gorostiza Rodríguez (28 October 1931 – 18 May 2019), better known as Analía Gadé, was an Argentine film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1948 and 2001. She appeared in the film '' Emergency Ward'', whic ...

as Consuela Dermatt * Jacques Higelin as Le motard

References

External links

* 1965 films French crime films 1960s French-language films 1965 crime films Films based on works by James Hadley Chase Films based on British novels Films directed by Jacques Deray Films about kidnapping Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard 1960s French films {{1960s-crime-film-stub