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When Midnight Strikes
Directed by	Léo Joannon
Written by	Alfred Machard
Based on	When Midnight Strikes by Alfred Machard
Produced by	Hans Boekman
Starring	Marie Bell Pierre Renoir Roger Karl
Cinematography	Boris Kaufman
Music by	Jean Wiener
Production company	France Europe Films
Release date	27 November 1936 (1936-11-27)
Running time	80 minutes
Countries	France Netherlands
Language	French

When Midnight Strikes (French: Quand minuit sonnera) is a 1936 French-Dutch crime drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Marie Bell, Pierre Renoir and Roger Karl. It was adapted by Alfred Machard from his own novel of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques-Laurent Atthalin. A separate Dutch-language version Klokslag twaalf was also produced.

Cast

• Marie Bell as Mattia
• Pierre Renoir as Jean Verdier
• Roger Karl as Rouque
• René Bergeron as Le capitaine
• Simone Barillier as Régine
• Thomy Bourdelle as Eric Schutz
• Lucien Callamand as Le maître d'hôtel
• Marcel Dalio
• Edith Gallia
• Enrico Glori
• Charles Lemontier

Bibliography

• Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
• Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
• Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• When Midnight Strikes at IMDb