Film
The Southern Trail
France- Director
- Pierre Billon
- Year
- 1938
As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.
Top cast
Ketti Gallian
Hélène Marchand
Albert Préjean
Lieutenant Naud
Pierre Renoir
Stolberg
Jean-Louis Barrault
Olcott
René Lefèvre
L'instituteur Saillant
André Fouché
Sous-lieutenant Beaumont
Arthur Devère
Gingembre
Jacques Baumer
Gomez
Jean Brochard
Adjudant Soulier
Geymond Vital
Braun
Jean Témerson
Chailloux
Charles Lemontier
Le sergent Horn
Marcel Melrac
Doholu
A.S. Takal
Ali
Jany Holt
(uncredited)
Rodolphe Marcilly
(uncredited)
Directed by
Pierre Billon