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Overview
Le Lit à colonnes is a French film first released in 1942,
directed by Roland Tual.
The film is based on a novel by Louise de Vilmorin and stars Michèle Alfa, Georges Cadix, Jacqueline Champi, Jacques Courtin and Max de Guy.
Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.
Synopsis
In 1880, the warders and inmates at a French prison are equally afraid
of Clément Porey-Cave, an implacable prison governor.
Porey-Cave even intimidates his wife Madeleine and loves only his
daughter, Marie-Dorée. In town, he has a mistress called
Yada, the star of the show at the Grand Café where all the
notables of the district congregate. Although Yada appears
devoted to Porey-Cave, she is actually in love with Jacques, a talented
violinist. When he learns that one of his prisoners, Rémy
Bonvent, writes music, Porey-Cave decides to make use of his
talents. He puts him in a cell by himself and gives him paper and
ink. Bonvent begins to write an opera entitled Le lit à colonnes, inspired
by his secret passion for Marie-Dorée. One evening,
Porey-Cave shows Yada and Jacques some of the music which Bonvent has
composed and pretends that he is the author. As Porey-Cave
prepares to stage the opera, he doesn’t know that one of his warders
has told Bonvent that he has stolen his work...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium) Film Review
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