Danger of Death

{{short description|1947 film}} {{Infobox film | name = Danger of Death | image =File:Danger of Death film poster.jpg | caption = | director =Gilles Grangier | producer = Paul Devriès Ferdinand Liffran Adrien Remaugé | based_on = | writer = Charles Exbrayat René Wheeler | narrator = | starring = Fernand Ledoux Georges Lannes Micheline Francey | music = Raymond Gallois-Montbrun | cinematography = Raymond Clunie | editing =Andrée Danis | studio = Les Prisonniers Associés Pathé | distributor = Pathé | released = {{Film date|1947|12|17|df=yes}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = France | language = French | budget = | gross = }} '''''Danger of Death''''' (French: '''''Danger de mort''''') is a 1947 French thriller film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Fernand Ledoux, Georges Lannes and Micheline Francey.<ref>Rège p.462</ref><ref>Kermabon p.304</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.unifrance.org/film/5093/danger-de-mort | title=Danger de mort de Gilles Grangier (1947) - Unifrance }}</ref> It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location around Sens. The film's sets were designed by the art director Roger Simon.

==Synopsis== Distracted the night after his wife give births, a pharmacist in provincial France accidentally puts a dose of cyanide in a batch of medicine he is making up. Realising what he has done he goes out to prevent the five customers from taking the lethal concoction.

==Cast== * Fernand Ledoux as Le pharmacien Adrien Loiseau * Georges Lannes as Ceccaldi * Micheline Francey as Flora * Colette Richard as La jeune mariée * Christine Hayrel as L'écuyère * Mona Dol as Une commère * Maurice Schutz as Le beau-père de Loiseau * Jacky Pasquero as Ceccaldi fils * Jean-Marc Lambert as Le jeune marié * René Blancard as Philippe Chauvieux * Charles Lavialle as Le receveur * François Joux as Alfred Bouchard * Jacques Emmanuel as Le mari de Flora * Michel Rob as Jean-Baptiste Chauvieux * Yvonne Yma as La marchande de journaux

== References == <references/>

== Bibliography == *Kermabon, Jacques. ''Pathé: premier empire du cinéma''. Centre Georges Pompidou, 1994. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

== External links == * {{IMDb title|0238147}}

Category:1947 films Category:French thriller films Category:1947 thriller films Category:1947 French-language films Category:Films directed by Gilles Grangier Category:French black-and-white films Category:1947 French films Category:Pathé films Category:Films shot at Joinville Studios