| The Day and the Hour | |
| Director: | René Clément |
| Producer: | Jacques Bar Raymond Froment |
| Starring: | Simone Signoret Stuart Whitman |
| Music: | Claude Bolling |
| Cinematography: | Henri Decaë |
| Editing: | Fedora Zincone |
| Studio: | Cipra Films Compagnia Cinématografica Mondiale |
| Distributor: | Metro Goldwyn Mayer |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Country: | France Italy |
| Language: | French English |
The Day and the Hour (French: Le jour et l'heure) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman.[1]
During the Nazi occupation, an American pilot named Allan Morley meets Thérèse Dutheil, a Parisian woman whose husband is a prisoner in Germany. It's May 1944, and the Gestapo is hunting down Allied soldiers whose plane was shot down. When Thérèse unwittingly gets involved in helping transport the aviators secretly, she and Allan end up traveling together to Toulouse to evade Gestapo capture. Despite their involuntary journey, a romance sparks between them. However, the Resistance separates them in the Pyrenees, sending Allan to Spain so he can rejoin his unit in England. After a heartbreaking goodbye, news of the Allied invasion arrives. What lies ahead for them once the war is over?