The first collaboration between filmmaker Jean Gremillon and legendary actor Jean Gabin, this adaptation of a novel by André Boucler features the young Gabin as a foreign-legion Casanova – the “lady killer” Lucien Bourrache – who meets his match in the mysterious seductress Madeleine (Mireille Balin). (Jean Gremillon, France, 1937, 94 min.) In French with English subtitles
