The Crew (French: L'Équipage) is a 1935 French war drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Annabella, Charles Vanel, Jean Murat and Jean-Pierre Aumont.[1] [2] It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location at an airfield in Mourmelon-le-Petit.[3] The film's sets were designed by the art directors Lucien Aguettand and Lucien Carré. It is also known by the alternative title Flight Into Darkness.

The Crew
Directed byAnatole Litvak
Written byJoseph Kessel
Anatole Litvak
Based onThe Crew by Joseph Kessel
Produced byBernard Natan
Emile Natan
Simon Schiffrin
StarringAnnabella
Charles Vanel
Jean Murat
Jean-Pierre Aumont
CinematographyArmand Thirard
Edited byHenri Rust
Music byArthur Honegger
Jean Wiener
Production
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Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 22 October 1935 (1935-10-22)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The film is based on the 1923 novel of the same title by Joseph Kessel, which had previously been made into a 1928 French silent film The Crew. Litvak remade his own film as The Woman I Love for his first Hollywood production in 1937.[4]

Synopsis

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In 1918 during the First World War, a French pilot has an affair with a married woman without realising that she is the wife of one of his colleagues from his new squadron.

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References

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  1. ^ Crisp p.137
  2. ^ Capua p.127
  3. ^ Capua p.128
  4. ^ Goble p.258

Bibliography

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  • Capua, Michelangelo. Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2015.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2015.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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