In Case of Adversity (1958)
- Original title
- En cas de malheur
- Directed by
- Claude Autant-Lara
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 2h 02m
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 68 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A married lawyer becomes obsessed with a young female criminal he is defending. He rigs the trial to get her acquitted and dreams of starting a family with her.
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What happens
In Case of Adversity (French: En cas de malheur) is a 1958 French-Italian crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot and Edwige Feuillère. In the United States, it was known as Love Is My Profession. The film was released in France on 17 September 1958. The plot follows a married lawyer who rigs a trial to acquit a young female criminal he has become obsessed with, even to the point of imagining they might have a life together and start a family. The screenplay was written by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost after the novel In Case of Emergency by Georges Simenon. It was the second Simenon-based film Gabin starred in that year, after Maigret Sets a Trap. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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