The Puritan (film)

The Puritan
Directed by	Jeff Musso
Written by	Liam O'Flaherty (novel) Jeff Musso Jeannine Delpech Louis Postif
Produced by	Jeff Musso
Starring	Pierre Fresnay Jean-Louis Barrault Viviane Romance
Cinematography	Charles Bauer Curt Courant
Edited by	Émilienne Nelissen
Music by	Jacques Belasco Jeff Musso
Production company	Derby Films
Distributed by	Consortium du Film
Release date	13 January 1938 (1938-01-13)
Running time	85 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Puritan (French: Le puritain) is a 1938 French crime film directed by Jeff Musso and starring Pierre Fresnay, Jean-Louis Barrault and Viviane Romance.^[1]

The film's art direction was by Henri Ménessier and Serge Piménoff.

Cast

• Pierre Fresnay as Le commissaire Lavan
• Jean-Louis Barrault as Francis Ferriter
• Viviane Romance as Molly
• Louis-Jacques Boucot as Monsieur Kelly
• Mady Berry as Madame Kelly
• Alexandre Rignault as Le docteur O'Leary
• Fréhel
• Ludmilla Pitoëff as La tante de Thérésa
• Alla Donell as Thérésa Burke
• Rosita Montenegro
• Marcel Vallée
• Georges Flamant as Callaghan
• Pedro Elviro as Un agent de la Sûreté
• Charblay
• Jean Tissier
• Léon Bary
• Pierre Labry
• Marcel Delaître as Le prêtre
• Marthe Mellot as Madame Ferriter
• Geneviève Sorya as La gourgandine
• Edmond Van Daële
• Paul Asselin
• Maurice Maillot

References

1. Krautz p.351

Bibliography

• Alfred Krautz. International directory of cinematographers set- and costume designers in film. Saur, 1983.
• Gilligan, Paula (1998). "Banned Text/Censored Images: The Avant-Garde as Resistance in Jeff Musso's Le Puritain". Interfaces. Image-Texte-Langage (14): 231–243. doi:10.3406/inter.1998.1154. Retrieved February 3, 2024.

External links

• The Puritan at IMDb