Face à la mort (1925)
Directed by Gérard Bourgeois, Harry Piel
Crime / Drama
aka: Swifter than Death
Face à la mort (1925)
Film Synopsis
The writer Harry Piel fancies himself as an amateur detective. When he learns that Jack Brown, the crook he helped to put behind bars, has escaped from prison, he decides to go after him. He must also take on Brown's scheming accomplice, Eric Holsen, who is planning to marry the beautiful widow Madame Christensen so that he can rob her of her fortune...© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Gérard Bourgeois, Harry Piel
- Script: Gérard Bourgeois, Edmund Heuberger, Herbert Nossen, Harry Piel
- Cinematographer: Georg Muschner, Gotthardt Wolf
- Cast: Harry Piel (Harry Piel), Denise Legeay (Lizzie), José Davert (Jack Brown), Fred Berger (Éric Holsen), Dary Holm (Christensen), Marguerite Madys (Yvette Riccoldi), Paul Guidé (Le duc de Frontignac), Albert Paulig (L'éditeur Riccoldi), Hermann Picha
- Country: France / Germany
- Language: French
- Support: Black and White / Silent
- Runtime: 100 min
- Aka: Swifter than Death
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The very best of the French New Wave
The Golden Age of French cinema
