''Six Hours to Lose'' (french: Six heures à perdre) is a 1947 French

romance film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

directed by

Alex Joffé Alex Joffé (18 November 1918 – 18 August 1995) was a French film director and screenwriter, known for ''Les cracks'' (1968), ''Fortunat'' (1960) and ''La grosse caisse'' (1965). He was the father of the director Arthur Joffé, as well as Mari ...

and Jean Lévitte and starring

André Luguet André Luguet (15 May 1892 – 24 May 1979) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1910 and 1970. He was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France, and died in Cannes, France. His daughter Rosine Luguet became ...

Denise Grey Denise Grey (born Édouardine Verthuy; 17 September 1896 – 13 January 1996) was an Italian-born actress who became a naturalized French citizen. Biography Édouardine Grey was born in Châtillon in the Aosta Valley of north-west Italy, clos ...

and

Pierre Larquey Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77. Selected filmography * ''Patr ...

. The film has no relation to the eponymous novel of

Robert Brasillach Robert Brasillach (; 31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. Brasillach was the editor of ''Je suis partout'', a nationalist newspaper which advocated fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot. After the liberat ...

, edited posthumously in 1953. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Paul-Louis Boutié Paul-Louis Boutié (1910-2004) was a French art directorCoates-Smith & McGee p.96 who designed the sets for many film productions in postwar France cinema. Selected filmography * '' Beautiful Star'' (1938) * ''The Acrobat'' (1941) * '' Gringalet ...

and

Guy de Gastyne Guy de Gastyne (1888–1972) was a French art director. He was the brother of the film director Marco de Gastyne.Andrew p.184 Selected filmography * ''Little Lise'' (1930) * ''Orange Blossom'' (1932) * '' Buridan's Donkey'' (1932) * ''Abduct Me'' ...

Plot

A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his

doppelgänger A doppelgänger (), a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns (double) and (walker or goer) (), doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person. In fiction and mythology, a doppelg ...

. Soon he experiences what that means.

Cast

as traveller / Léopold de Witt *

as Misses de Witt *

as Joseph *

Paulette Dubost Paulette may refer to: *Paulette (name), French feminine given name *Paulette (tax) * Paulette Caveat - a caveat filed in 1973 by a group of Dene chiefs at the land titles office in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to gain a legal interest in 40 ...

as Annette *

Jacqueline Pierreux Jacqueline Pierreux (15 January 1923 – 10 March 2005) was a French film and television actress.Philip Mosley p.105 From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer. She was the wife of screenwriter Pierre Léaud and the mothe ...

as Simone *

Dany Robin Dany Robin (; 14 April, 1927 – 25 May, 1995) was a French actress of the 1950s and the 1960s. Career Robin was born Danielle Robin in Clamart. She performed with Peter Sellers in ''The Waltz of the Toreadors'', and co-starred opposite Kirk Do ...

as Rosy *

Louis de Funès Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza (; 31 July 1914 – 27 January 1983) was a French actor and comedian. He is France's favourite actor, according to a series of polls conducted since the late 1960s, having played over 150 roles in fil ...

as the driver *

Luce Fabiole Luce may refer to: People * Luce (name), as a given name and a surname * Luce (singer) Places * Luče Luče (; sometimes ''Luče ob Savinji'', german: Leutsch) is the largest settlement and the centre of the Municipality of Luče in northe ...

as the passenger *

Marguerite de Morlaye Marguerite de Morlaye (29 January 1870, Saint-Mandé –18 September 1957, Paris) was a French actress. Selected filmography * ''Martyr'' (1927) * '' A Foolish Maiden'' (1929) * '' The Wonderful Day'' (1932) * '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) ...

as the rich widow *

Jean-Jacques Delbo Jean-Jacques Delbo (10 January 1909 – 20 May 1996) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1990. Filmography References External links * 1909 births 1996 deaths French male film actors {{F ...

as Claude *

Jean Gaven Jean Gaven (16 January 1918 – 5 May 2014) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films between 1945 and 1996. Life and career Born in Saint-Rome-de-Cernon, France on January 16, 1922, Gaven began acting sometime after the end of W ...

as Antoine

References

External links

* * 1947 films 1940s French-language films 1940s romance films French black-and-white films French romance films Pathé films Films directed by Alex Joffé 1940s French films {{1940s-romance-film-stub