Wages of the sin

the Wages of the sin is a French film carried out by Denys of Patellière, left in 1956. The title is resulting from a quotation of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans: The wages of the sin, it is death .

Synopsis

With La Rochelle, a small journalist of province, ambitious and cynical, Jean de Charvin, marries Isabelle Lindstrom, girl of Franck Lindstrom, rich ship-owner who repudiates this marriage. Lindstrom disinherits his/her daughter. Living meanly, Jean, having learned that his father-in-law gave Isabelle on his cardiac will and knowing it, kills it, without the touch, by frightening him. The nurse, Angele Ribot, witness of the crime, become her mistress. Seriously wounded in an accident of car, Isabelle refuses with her husband, who tries to kill her to enjoy his fortune more freely. Small good is the innocent victim of the machination. Isabelle surprises a stormy explanation between Angèle and Jean and includes/understands all. She forgives, but her husband, to end, devotes himself to the police force.

Data sheet

Title: Wages of the sin
Realization: Denys of Patellière
Scenario: Roland Laudenbach according to the novel of Nancy Ruthledge
Music: Maurice Leroux
Country of origin: France
Format: Black and white - Mono
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 110 minutes
Coming out date: France: December 26th 1956

Distribution

Danielle Darrieux: Isabelle Lindstrom
Jean-Claude Pascal: Jean de Charvin
Jeanne Moreau: Angele Ribot
Jean Debucourt: Frank Lindstrom
Marcel Bozzuffi
Michel Etcheverry: Doctor Maroual
Jean Lanier: Pasteur
Christian Lude: Benoit
Julien Verdier: the bookseller
Georges Chamarat: the doctor
Jacqueline Senior
Antonin Baryel: the servant
Henry Belly: the clerk of the notary
Pierre Leproux: the usurer
Marcelle Hainia
Pierre Morin: Mr. Logan, the signatory
Charles Bayard

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