The Day and the Hour

The Day and the Hour

110 mins | Drama, Action, War | April 5, 1963

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?

The Day and the Hour

110 mins | Drama, Action, War | April 5, 1963

The Day and the Hour
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Compagnia Cinematografica Mondiale (CCM), Compagnie Internationale de Productions Cinématographiques (CIPRA), Terra Film
Original title Le Jour et l'Heure
Directors Dolores Rubin, René Clément, Claude Pinoteau, Costa-Gavras
Writers

Cast

Simone Signoret

as Thérèse Dutheil

Stuart Whitman

as le capitaine Allan Morley

Geneviève Page

as Agathe

Michel Piccoli

as Antoine

Reggie Nalder

as le policier allemand

Billy Kearns

as Pat Riley

Marcel Bozzuffi

as l'inspecteur Lerat

Henri Virlogeux

as Legendre, le pharmacien

Hénia Sucha

as la fille en bleu

Hubert de Lapparent

as Jasseron

Maurice Garrel

as Le chef milicien (uncredited)

Marcel Gassouk

as Un paysan (uncredited)

Yvette Etiévant

as La caissière de la pharmacie

Pierre Dux

as Le commissaire divisionnaire Marboz - de la Police Judiciaire

Clara Gansard

as La maquisarde

Colette Castel

as Lucie

Mark Burns

as Un aviateur anglais

Hénia Suchar

as La jeune résistante en bleu

Carl Studer

as Maj. Gordon