The Day and the Hour (French: Le jour et l'heure) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman.
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Plot
During the Nazi occupation, an American pilot named Allan Morley meets Thérèse Dutheil, a Parisian woman whose husband is a prisoner in Germany. It's May 1944, and the Gestapo is hunting down Allied soldiers whose plane was shot down. When Thérèse unwittingly gets involved in helping transport the aviators secretly, she and Allan end up traveling together to Toulouse to evade Gestapo capture. Despite their involuntary journey, a romance sparks between them. However, the Resistance separates them in the Pyrenees, sending Allan to Spain so he can rejoin his unit in England. After a heartbreaking goodbye, news of the Allied invasion arrives. What lies ahead for them once the war is over?
Cast
Simone Signoret as Therese Dutheil
Stuart Whitman as Captain Allan Morley
Geneviève Page as Agathe Dutheil
Michel Piccoli as Antoine
Reggie Nalder as Le gestapiste
Billy Kearns as Pat Riley
Marcel Bozzuffi as Inspector Lerat
Henri Virlogeux as Legendre
Pierre Dux as Inspector Marboz