The Day and the Hour

The Day and the Hour

It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?

Cast for The Day and the Hour...

Simone Signoret
Thérèse Dutheil
Stuart Whitman
le capitaine Allan Morley
Reggie Nalder
le policier allemand
Billy Kearns
Pat Riley
Marcel Bozzuffi
l'inspecteur Lerat
Henri Virlogeux
Legendre, le pharmacien
Hénia Sucha
la fille en bleu
Maurice Garrel
Le chef milicien (uncredited)
Marcel Gassouk
Un paysan (uncredited)
Yvette Etiévant
La caissière de la pharmacie
Pierre Dux
Le commissaire divisionnaire Marboz - de la Police Judiciaire
Clara Gansard
La maquisarde
Mark Burns
Un aviateur anglais
Hénia Suchar
La jeune résistante en bleu
Carl Studer
Maj. Gordon