- Country: France
- Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Release: 1949-09-30
- Director: Maurice de Canonge
- Writers: Jacques Companéez , Michel Duran , Maurice Level
- Language: French
- Stars: Paul Meurisse , Odette Joyeux , Léo Lapara , Luce Feyrer , Fernand Fabre , Albert Dinan , Charles Mantelet , Robert Noël , Lucien Pascal , Georges Desmoulins
- Runtime: min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Last Hour, Special Edition (United States of America) , Dernière heure, édition spéciale (France, French Republic) , Dernière heure, édition spéciale
- Plot: This work is not really satisfying.It's pussyfooting all along the movie. The director does not seem to make up his mind: sometimes it's a comedy and the owner of Paul Meurisse's paper provides the comic relief ;and sometimes it's thriller (and I mean thriller ,cause the journalist might die on the guillotine: during his trial,some say he could be sentenced to death)And it is finally a disappointment.A musician (who is also a womanizer) dies and the aforementioned journalist writes in his paper that it's a murder!Of course everybody buys the rag.But it is really a murder and the reporter becomes the main suspect.All his proofs backfire on himself and his wife (Odette Joyeux) desperately tries to save him.Most interesting scene: Meurisse's depiction of the crime in the bathtub :six years later,he would be murdered that way in Clouzot's "les Diaboliques"!
- IMDB:tt0242407
Dernière heure, édition spéciale Cast · · · ALL
Maurice de Canonge
Director
Paul Meurisse
Dominique Coche
Odette Joyeux
Andrée Coche
Pierre Dac
Joseph François Berty
Marguerite Pierry
Albert Dinan
L'inspecteur Perrier
Jany Vallières
Jean Martinelli
Jean Carmet
Nestor
Fernand Fabre
Emmanuel Costa
Louis Florencie
Gaston Clapet
Gregori Chmara
Le témoin
Luce Feyrer
Lucien Pascal
Maximilienne
Jean Pignol
Rivers Cadet
Maurice de Canonge
Michel Galabru
Hennery
Gabrielle Rosny
Roger Vincent
René Worms