''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 Jacques Feyder who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel "Telle qu'elle était de son vivant" by

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. The films stars Michèle Morgan,

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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

* Michèle Morgan as Jacqueline *

as Robert Shaw *

as Corporal Dalrymple * Max Michel as the Advocate *

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as Ellis * Fabien Loris as Daugh

References

External links

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