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Alibi

6.5 84 mins Mystery   Crime   1937
Tellus Films   Nash Buchovzer Films  
Director(s): Pierre Chenal

Release Date: 22 Wed, Dec 1937

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.

Casts of Alibi

Erich von Stroheim

as Professor Winckler

Louis Jouvet

as Commissioner Calas

Jany Holt

as Hélène Ardouin

Albert Préjean

as André Laurent

Véra Flory

as Barmaid

Foun-Sen

as Winckler's assistant

Génia Vaury

as Barmaid

Made Siamé

as Calas's secretary

Roger Blin

as Kretz, Winckler's henchman

Philippe Richard

as John Gordon

Jean Témerson

as Jojo, Dany's friend

Maurice Baquet

as Gérard

Pierre Labry

as First inspector

Max Dalban

as Second inspector

Florence Marly

as Gordon's Mistress

Margo Lion

as Dany

Bobby Martin

as Jazz conductor

Thelma Minor

as Singer of the orchestra

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