Themes: Femmes Fatales, Treacherous Spouses, Age Disparity Romance
Main Cast: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Robert Arnoux
Release Year: 1957
Country: FR
Run Time: 104 minutes
Plot
Jean Gabin stars in Voici le Temps des Assassins as Chatelin, a soft-spoken, middle-aged restauranteur. His life is unexpectedly complicated when Catherine (Daniele Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife, pays a visit. Catherine tells Chatelin that her mother is dead, and that she's all alone in the world. The good-hearted Chatelin comes to regret his decision to allow the girl to stay when it develops that she's not only a liar, but a psychotic, who plans to murder him. Voici le Temps des Assassins was released in the US as Deadlier Than the Male. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Voici le temps des assassins (Here is the time of the assassins) is a Frenchfilm directed by Julien Duvivier, released in April 1956. The title is a line of Matinée d'ivresse - part of Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud.
Synopsis
In Les Halles, in the heart of Paris, the restaurateur André Chatelin (Jean Gabin), leads an uneventful life until the arrival from Marseille of Catherine (Danièle Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife Gabrielle (Lucienne Bogaert). She tells him her mother is dead and that she is without resources. Chatelin welcomes her under his roof - then marries her. Gérard (Gérard Blain), a young student that Chatelin looks upon as a son, becomes Catherine's lover, and she sets him at odds with Chatelin. She asks him to kill the restaurateur. He refuses. She kills him. Having discovered that Gabrielle is still alive, declined and drug addicted, Chatelin realises the darkness of Catherine's soul who has always lied to him.
