That Night (French: Cette nuit là...) is a 1958 French crime drama film directed by Maurice Cazeneuve and starring Mylène Demongeot, Maurice Ronet and Jean Servais. It is an adaptation of the 1957 novel Un silence de mort by Michel Lebrun.
It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Chalvet.
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Cast
Mylène Demongeot as Sylvie Mallet
Maurice Ronet as Jean Mallet
Jean Servais as André Reverdy
Françoise Prévost as La secrétaire
Jean Lara as L'inspecteur Toussaint
Hubert Noël as Gérald Martin
Florence Arnaud as La femme à la lampe
Gilbert Edard as François
Yves Arcanel as Le dessinateur
Marc Doelnitz as Le boute en train
Henri Maïk as Le photographe
Jacques Dhéry as Le correcteur
Françoise Brion as Jeanne d'Arc
Claude Bolling as himself
Reception
Frédéric Bonnaud called the movie "a caricature of pre-New Wave French cinema" and said "To endure it to the end, you have to love killer dialogue. ... These inanities are spoken with a knowing air, between meaningful silences. They serve as decoration for a banal story of adultery."