{{short description|1936 film}} {{Infobox film | name = When Midnight Strikes | image = When Midnight Strikes.jpg | caption = | director =Léo Joannon | producer =Hans Boekman | based_on =''When Midnight Strikes'' by Alfred Machard | writer = Alfred Machard | narrator = | starring =Marie Bell <br> Pierre Renoir <br> Roger Karl | music = Jean Wiener | cinematography = Boris Kaufman | editing = | studio =France Europe Films | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1936|11|27|df=y}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = France <br> Netherlands | language = French | budget = | gross = }} '''''When Midnight Strikes''''' (French: '''''Quand minuit sonnera''''') is a 1936 French-Dutch crime drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Marie Bell, Pierre Renoir and Roger Karl.<ref>Bessy & Chirat p.183</ref> It was adapted by Alfred Machard from his own novel of the same title. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques-Laurent Atthalin. A separate Dutch-language version ''Klokslag twaalf'' was also produced.<ref>Rège p.537</ref>
==Cast== * Marie Bell as Mattia * Pierre Renoir as Jean Verdier * Roger Karl as Rouque * René Bergeron as Le capitaine * Simone Barillier as Régine * Thomy Bourdelle as Eric Schutz * Lucien Callamand as Le maître d'hôtel * Marcel Dalio * Edith Gallia * Enrico Glori * Charles Lemontier
== References == <references/>
== Bibliography == * Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939''. Pygmalion, 1986. * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0288782}}
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Category:1936 films Category:French crime drama films Category:1936 drama films Category:1936 crime films Category:Dutch crime drama films Category:1936 French-language films Category:Films directed by Léo Joannon Category:French black-and-white films Category:1936 French films Category:Films based on French novels Category:Films scored by Jean Wiener Category:Films based on works by Alfred Machard Category:French-language Dutch films
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