Movie: Devil and the Angel

Top 10 Billed Cast

Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim

Frank Davis

Madeleine Sologne
Madeleine Sologne

Jeanne "Angela"

Louis Salou
Louis Salou

Furet

Jean-Jacques Delbo
Jean-Jacques Delbo

Lenoir

Margo Lion
Margo Lion

Marie-Louise

Yves Vincent
Yves Vincent

Robert

Claudine Dupuis
Claudine Dupuis

Clara

Pierre Labry
Pierre Labry

Inspector Gardel

Georges Vitray
Georges Vitray

Bank manager

George Cusin
George Cusin

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    The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.

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    1946-10-30

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