Wolves Hunt at Night

Based onLe Lieutenant de Gibraltar by Pierre FrondaieProduced byRaymond BorderieStarringCinematographyJacques LemareEdited byHenri TavernaMusic byJoseph KosmaDistributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma98 minutesCountriesLanguageFrench

Wolves Hunt at Night (French: Les Loups chassent la nuit, Italian: La ragazza di Trieste) is a 1952 French-Italian spy thriller film directed by Bernard Borderie and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Carla Del Poggio and Fernand Ledoux.^[1][2] It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location in Trieste and Venice. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.

Synopsis

A French secret agent is summoned by his superior, the head of a counterespionage organisation, to Trieste where he is takes with trying to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice. His attempts are obstructed by an attractive cabaret singer who may be working with the opposition.

Cast

• Jean-Pierre Aumont as Cyril Dormoy, an agent of Mollert
• Carla Del Poggio as Catherine, the friend of Cyril, singer of cabaret
• Fernand Ledoux as Thomas Mollert, journalist and leader of a spy ring of counterespionage
• Marcel Herrand as Pedro, the director of cabaret
• John Kitzmiller as the black servant of Miguel
• Roldano Lupi as Miguel, spy and salable falsehood of pictures
• Nicolas Vogel as Jim, the driver of Mollert
• Attilio Dottesio as Baum, alias: "Horner", a spy
• Gianni Rizzo as the Italian commissioner
• Sophie Sel as an employee of the hotel
• Louis de Funès as the barman servant
• Tancrédi as the driver

References

Bibliography

• Gili, Jean A. & Tassone, Aldo. Parigi-Roma: 50 anni di coproduzioni italo-francesi (1945-1995). Editrice Il castoro, 1995.
• Marie, Michel. The French New Wave: An Artistic School. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

External links

• Wolves Hunt at Night at IMDb
• Les Loups chassent la nuit (1952) at the Films de France