The Day and the Hour
- IMDb link: 0056126
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (494 votes) Search
- Genres: Action, Drama, War, Romance
- Director: Rene Clement, Michel Piccoli
- Cast: Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page and others
- Release date: 19 Feb 1964
- Release year: 1963
- Runtime: 110 minutes
- Country: France, Italy
- Keywords: year 1944, world war two, nazi occupied france, frenchwoman, explosion, sabotage, allied airman, american pilot, british pilot, escape
Plot
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In Nazi-occupied France during WWII, a French woman helps two downed Allied airmen to evade capture by the Germans and make their way into neutral Spain.
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
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