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Personal Column is a french film of genre Drama directed by Robert Siodmak released in USA on 2 february 1941 with Marie Déa
Personal Column (1939)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 2 february 1941
Length 1h51
Directed by Robert Siodmak
OriginFrance
Themes Serial killer films
Rating68%
Personal Column (French: Pièges) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Maurice Chevalier, Pierre Renoir and Marie Déa. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. After one of her fellow taxi dancers is murdered by an unknown man who she met through a personal column advert, Adrienne Charpentier is recruited by the police to answer a series of similar adverts to try to track down the killer. She meets and falls in love with the charming nightclub owner and womanizer Robert Fleury, but clues begin to appear that suggest that it is he who is the murderer.
Synopsis
Onze jeunes filles, danseuses de cabarets ou entraîneuses, disparaissent attirées par les petites annonces d'un tueur en série. Une entraîneuse aide la police dans son enquête. Les suspects forment une galerie de personnages inquiétants et de détraqués.Actors
Marie Déa
(Adrienne Charpentier / Mademoiselle Blanche / Gabrielle Deny / Adrienne Du Pont / Raymonde Blanchard)
Maurice Chevalier
(Robert Fleury)
Erich von Stroheim
(Pears, l'ex-couturier)
Pierre Renoir
(Brémontière)
Jean Temerson
(Inpecteur Batol)
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