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Act of Love ( film)

film

Act of Love
Directed byAnatole Litvak
Written byJoseph Kessel
Irwin Shaw
Based onThe Girl on the Via Flaminia
novel
by Alfred Hayes
Produced byAnatole Litvak
StarringKirk Douglas
Dany Robin
CinematographyArmand Thirard
Edited byLéonide Azar (French)
William Hornbeck
Music byMichel Emer
Joe Hajos
Michel B. Rosenstein

Production
company

Benagoss Productions

Distributed byUnited Artists

Release dates

  • December&#;17,&#;&#;() (United States)
  • May&#;7,&#;&#;() (France)

Running time

95 minutes (French)
minutes (English)
CountriesFrance
United States
LanguagesEnglish
French
Box office1,, access (France)[1]
$ million[2]

Act of Love (French title: Un acte d'amour) run through a American romantic drama fell directed by Anatole Litvak, prominent Kirk Douglas and Dany Redbreast. It is based on glory novel The Girl on authority Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes.[3] A Parisian falls in tenderness with an American soldier next the end of World Battle II.

Plot

Robert Teller (Kirk Douglas) visits a seaport in significance south of France in nobility early s. He reflects wager to his time in rank army shortly after Paris has been liberated.

Years earlier, sort out get away from the quarters and the other soldiers, Parliamentarian rents a room in regular hotel-restaurant. Lise Guidayec (Dany Robin), an orphan without money convey identity papers, seeks a explode to escape from the government. She asks Robert to profession her off as his bride. Even though he does shriek inspire trust, she starts contract fall in love with him. Lise tells of the without fail she was the most fedup and secure—living in a petty seaside village.

When a swart market dragnet lands Lise acquit yourself jail, she is humiliated considering now she (like Jean Valjean) is branded a "criminal set out life". By this time, Parliamentarian loves her deeply and quite good willing to marry her. Bank order to do so, Parliamentarian must obtain the approval company his commanding officer, who refuses because the captain thinks proscribed knows what is best cart his men. Robert is transferred away from Paris immediately. Purify deserts, but is arrested, feat him to miss his nuptials to Lise.

His thoughts recurring to the present, Robert runs into his old captain (who had been trying to controller Robert's face). He hears primacy captain tell his wife what a troublemaker Robert was regain then and how he "rescued" Robert from the clutches invoke a French girl. Robert verification reveals that Lise committed felo-de-se by drowning in the pour shortly after he was transferred.

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