Main Cast: Alida Valli, Stephen Boyd, Pepe Nieto, Brigitte Bardot, Fernando Rey, Maruchi Fresno
Release Year: 1958
Country: FR/IT
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven Fell. Bardot plays a young, sensuous French girl named Ursula, who arrives in a Spanish mountain community to visit her aunt (Alida Valli) and uncle (Pepe Nieto). It isn't long before uncle is killed by handsome stranger Lamberto (Stephen Boyd). Against her better judgement, Ursula falls in love with Lamberto, and helps him to elude the authorities-thereby beating her Aunt (who also loves Lamberto) to the punch . The Night Heaven Fell was the third feature-length directorial effort of Bardot's then-husband Roger Vadim. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Adriano Dominguez - Fernando; Jose Marco Davo - Chief Policeman; Antonio Vico - Count's Driver; Cantinflas - Alfonso; Jose Nieto
Credit
Jean André - Art Director, Roger Vadim - Director, Victoria Mercanton - Editor, Georges Auric - Composer (Music Score), Jacques Metehen - Musical Direction/Supervision, Armand Thirard - Cinematographer, Raoul J. Lévy - Producer, Jacques Rémy - Screenwriter, Roger Vadim - Screenwriter, Peter Viertel - Screenwriter, Albert Vidalie - Book Author, Albert Visalie - Short Story Author
The Night Heaven Fell (Les bijoutiers du claire de lune) is a 1958French-Italian film directed by Roger Vadim. Vadim had already acquired international fame with his daring debut And God Created Woman (1956). Like its predecessor, The Night Heaven Fell explored the exuberant sensuality of Brigitte Bardot, who was Vadim's wife at the time.
Plot
Set in rural Spain, Bardot plays Ursula, a young girl who has just left a convent and has moved in with her aunt Florentine and her violent husband, the count Ribera. Ribera wants to see Lambert, a young man from the village, dead. Ursula quickly falls in love with Lambert. In a confrontation between the two, Lambert kills Ribera in self-defence.
The reason for the conflict soon becomes clear to Ursula: he was having an affair with her aunt. However, when Florentine discovers her lover has no intention of making any commitment to her, she refuses to confirm Lambert's alibi to the police and forces him into becoming a fugitive. Ursula, always impulsive, runs off with him and together they seek a way to get him safely out of the country.
