The Day and the Hour

The Day and the Hour
Directed by	René Clément
Written by	René Clément Roger Vailland Andre Barret
Produced by	Jacques Bar Raymond Froment
Starring	Simone Signoret Stuart Whitman
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Edited by	Fedora Zincone
Music by	Claude Bolling
Production companies	Cipra Films Compagnia Cinématografica Mondiale
Distributed by	Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release dates	1963 (1963) (France) 19 February 1964 (1964-02-19) (United States)
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Languages	French English

The Day and the Hour (French: Le jour et l'heure) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman.

Plot

During the Nazi occupation, an American pilot named Allan Morley meets Thérèse Dutheil, a Parisian woman whose husband is a prisoner in Germany. It's May 1944, and the Gestapo is hunting down Allied soldiers whose plane was shot down. When Thérèse unwittingly gets involved in helping transport the aviators secretly, she and Allan end up traveling together to Toulouse to evade Gestapo capture. Despite their involuntary journey, a romance sparks between them. However, the Resistance separates them in the Pyrenees, sending Allan to Spain so he can rejoin his unit in England. After a heartbreaking goodbye, news of the Allied invasion arrives. What lies ahead for them once the war is over?

Cast

• Simone Signoret as Therese Dutheil
• Stuart Whitman as Captain Allan Morley
• Geneviève Page as Agathe Dutheil
• Michel Piccoli as Antoine
• Reggie Nalder as Le gestapiste
• Billy Kearns as Pat Riley
• Marcel Bozzuffi as Inspector Lerat
• Henri Virlogeux as Legendre
• Pierre Dux as Inspector Marboz

External links

• The Day and the Hour at IMDb