Bethsabée

Overview

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.

Directed by Léonide Moguy

Top cast

Danielle Darrieux

Arabella Delvert

Georges Marchal

Le capitaine Georges Dubreuil

Jean Murat

Le Colonel de Cervière

Paul Meurisse

Le capitaine Lucien Sommervill - l'ex amant d'Arabella

Pierre-Louis

Le lieutenant Testard (as Pierre Louis)

O

Olivier Darrieux

Le chauffeur

F

France Mooréa

Nicolas Vogel

L'adjudant

L

Larbi Tounsi

(as Tounsi)

Robert Darène

Le major

Andrée Clément

Evelyne - la fille du colonel, maîtresse de Sommerville

J

José Davilla

Petit rôle (uncredited)

P

Paola Manelli

(uncredited)

M

Mireille Ozy

(uncredited)

R

René Pascal

Petit rôle (uncredited)

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