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Bethsabée (1947)
Director: Léonide Moguy
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal, Jean Murat, Paul Meurisse
Runtime97 min
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Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
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Bethsabée is a 1947 French drama film directed by Léonide Moguy that adapts Pierre Benoit's novel. The film stars Danielle Darrieux as Arabella Delvaire, a woman who becomes entangled in a romantic triangle at a remote Foreign Legion outpost. While the film's backdrop is the Foreign Legion, it has little action, which may have made distribution in the U.S. challenging.
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Bethsabée is a 1947 French drama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal and Jean Murat. It is also known by the alternative title of Le deserteur. It is based on the 1938 novel of the same title by Pierre Benoît, set in French Morocco. The title is a reference to the biblical story of Bathsheba.
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