The Eleventh Hour Guest (French: L'invité de la onzième heure) is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Jean Tissier, Blanchette Brunoy and Roger Pigaut. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch.
Synopsis
An inventor claims to have invented an incredible new machine which acts as a thought detector amongst other things. On the evening he unveils it to his family and intended wife, tragedy strikes and he is found dead.
Cast
Jean Tissier as Christophe Berri
Roger Pigaut as Le docteur Rémi Lambert
Blanchette Brunoy as Antoinette Langeais
Junie Astor as Isabelle Bourgoin
Lily Baron as Olga
Guillaume de Sax as Thomas Bourgoin
Marcel Delaître as Monsieur Sulnac
André Fouché as Serge
René Génin as Calixte
Jean Hébey as Frédéric
Lily Mounet as Madame Sulnac
Georgette Tissier as La soubrette
References
Bibliography
Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.