Law of the North (1939)
La Loi du nord
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
- Date of release
- 1939-09-04
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Adventure
- Director
- Jacques Feyder
Casting
- Michèle Morgan — Jacqueline Bert
- Pierre Richard-Willm — Robert Shaw
- Charles Vanel — Dalrymple
- Arlette Marchal — Madame Shaw
- Jacques Terrane — Louis Dumontier
- Max Michel
- Youcca Troubetzkov — Ellis Lowton
- Henri Guisol — Dr. Milo
- Jean Bradin
- Jean Wall — Prosecutor
- Robert Moor
- Robert Seller
Interesting facts
La Loi du nord is a 1939 French adventure drama film directed by Jacques Feyder who co-wrote screenplay with Alexandre Arnoux and Charles Spaak, based on novel "Telle qu'elle était de son vivant" by Maurice Constantin-Weyer. The films stars Michèle Morgan, Pierre Richard-Willm and Charles Vanel. It tells the story of an escaped prisoner, his woman secretary and two guardsmen in the Far North. It was entered for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film at the 1939 Cannes Film Festival.
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