La Madone des sleepings (1955)
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches, a uranium deposit in a South American country, attracts the attention of international secret agents. Lady Diana is at the center of a spider's web, with the French, British and Germans all trying to get their hands on her. Helped by the love of Armando, whom she met in San Miguel, she gives the deposit to her secretary Gérard as a reward for his services.
- Date of release
- 1955-06-20
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Henri Diamant-Berger
Casting
- Gisèle Pascal — Lady Diana Wyndham
- Jean Gaven — Don Armando Félix
- Erich von Stroheim — Dr Siefgried Traurig
- Philippe Mareuil — Gérard Dextrier
- Denise Vernac — Anna
- Fernand Rauzéna — Le Queledec
- Jacqueline Dane — Clara
- Joé Davray — L'ingénieur
Interesting facts
Madonna of the Sleeping Cars is a 1955 French drama film directed by Henri Diamant-Berger and starring Giselle Pascal, Jean Gaven and Erich von Stroheim. The film is an adaptation of the 1925 novel of the same title by Maurice Dekobra, though the plot has been changed somewhat, and the action brought into the 1950s and set in Latin America rather than the Black Sea coast of the USSR.
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