''The Whole Town Accuses'' (French: ''Toute la ville accuse'') is a 1956 French

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directed by

Claude Boissol Claude Boissol (1920–2016) was a French film and television director and screenwriter. Rège p.116 He co-created the long-running crime television series '' Commissaire Moulin''. Selected filmography * ''Three Boys, One Girl'' (1948) * '' Th ...

and starring

Jean Marais Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais (), was a French actor, film director, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. He performed in over 100 f ...

Etchika Choureau Etchika Choureau (19 November 1929 – 25 January 2022) was a French film actress. She was at one point in a relationship with Hassan II of Morocco, who was then heir to the throne. Choureau died on 25 January 2022, at the age of 92. Filmogra ...

and

Noël Roquevert Noël Roquevert (born Noël Louis Raymond Bénévent; 18 December 1892 – 6 November 1973) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1932 and 1972. Roquevert was born in Doué-la-Fontaine and was married ...

. Andrew & Gillain p.253 The film was known under the working title ''Mille et un millions'' in France. It was shot at the

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. The film's sets were designed by the

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Robert Dumesnil.

Cast

as François Nérac *

as Catherine Aravitte *

as Duplantin *

François Patrice François Patrice (1 January 1924 – 19 December 2018) was a French film and television actor.Goble p.154 Selected filmography * ''The Sea Rose'' (1946) * ''Dilemma of Two Angels'' (1948) * ''Three Boys, One Girl'' (1948) * '' Duel in Dakar'' (1 ...

as Patrice Lourel *

Michel Etcheverry Michel Etcheverry (16 December 1919 – 30 March 1999) was a French actor. First a teacher, he was fired in 1941 for refusing to make the Maréchal children sing, here we come! . He began his career in the theater as a stage manager, then joined ...

as leader of the bandits *

Georges Lannes Georges Lannes (27 October 1895 – 8 July 1983) was a French film actor who appeared in more than a hundred films during his career including '' André Cornélis'' (1927).Goble p.50 Selected filmography * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1922) * '' ...

as the mayor *

Albert Duvaleix Albert Duvaleix (1893-1962) was a French stage and film actor. Bessy & Chirat p.138 A character actor he appeared in a number of supporting roles in French comedies and drama films. His son Christian Duvaleix also became an actor. Selected filmo ...

as M. Arvette - the notary *

Claude Le Lorrain Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque Painting, Baroque era. He spent most ...

as young man *

Charles Bouillaud Charles Bouillaud (1904–1965) was a French actor. Selected filmography {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouillaud, Charles 1904 births 1965 deaths French male stage actors French male film actors French male television actors 20th-century French male ...

as Pistard *

Henri Cogan Henri Cogan (13 September 1914 in Paris – 23 September 2003 in Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French actor and stuntman. Biography Before Henri Cogan became a fight choreographer for European action films he proved his expertise in hand-to-hand comb ...

as a gangster *

Odette Barencey Odette Barencey (20 August 1893 – 4 March 1981) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1927 and 1958. She was married to the actor Marcel Barencey. Selected filmography * '' My Childish Father'' (1930) * ' ...

as Mary, the good *

Marcel Pérès Marcel Pérès (born 15 July 1956, Oran, Algeria) is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant. Pérès was ...

as the man on the sidewalk *

Raphaël Patorni Raphaël Patorni (1911–1986) was a French film actor.Hayward p.439 Selected filmography * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1943) * ''The Island of Love'' (1944) * '' Jericho'' (1946) * '' Barry'' (1949) * '' Doctor Laennec'' (1949) * '' The Martyr ...

as president of the Tribunal

References

Bibliography

* Andrew, Dudley & Gillain, Anne . ''A Companion to François Truffaut''. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.

External links

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Toute la ville accuse (1956)
at the ''Films de France'' 1956 films French comedy-drama films 1950s French-language films French black-and-white films Films directed by Claude Boissol 1956 comedy-drama films 1956 comedy films 1956 drama films 1950s French films Pathé films {{1950s-France-film-stub