La Route du bagne (1945)
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...
Director: Léon Mathot
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Viviane Romance as Manon |
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Lucien Coëdel as Rabouin |
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Clément Duhour as Gilbert |
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Paulette Élambert as La Pâlotte |
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Paul Amiot as |
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Odette Barencey as |
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Georges Biscot as |
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Cadex as |
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Marc Cassot as |
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Simone Cerdan as Janeton |
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Charlotte Dauvia as |
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Yvonne Ducaux as |
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Marguerite Ducouret as Soeur Prudence |
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Thérèse Dulac as |
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Georges Flateau as |
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Maurice Lagrenée as |
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Raymond Loyer as |
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Jean-Jacques Lécot as |
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Olivier Mathot as |
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Jean Meyer as |
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Régine Montlaur as Câline |
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Geneviève Morel as |
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Marcel Pérès as |
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Fernand Rauzéna as |
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Raymone as |
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Madeleine Suffel as Belles Mirettes |
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Sylvie as |
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Jacques Tarride as |
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Simone Valère as Jacqueline |
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Georges Vitray as |
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André Wasley as |
| Production | Lucien Masson | Producer |
| Sound | Henri Verdun | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Roland Quignon | Art Direction |
| Production | Jean Darvey | Production Manager |
| Sound | Lucien Lacharmoise | Sound |
| Directing | Léon Mathot | Director |
| Writing | Pierre-Gilles Veber | Novel |
| Writing | Pierre Lestringuez | Writer |
| Camera | Léonce-Henri Burel | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Marguerite Beaugé | Editor |