Anatole Litvak – L’Équipage aka Flight into darkness (1935)

Filmmaker Anatole Litvak was still one year away from his “breakthrough” picture Mayerling when he co-wrote and directed L’Equipage (The Crew). Charles Vanel and Annabella star respectively as a daring WW I aviator and his loving but neglected wife. Ostracized by the other pilots because of his recklessness and standoffishness, Vanel nonetheless befriends a young flyboy (Jean-Pierre Aumont). It is therefore a great source of consternation for Aumont when he discovers that the woman with whom he’s fallen in love is none other than Vanel’s wife Annabella.
This untenable situation is resolved…
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during an airborne skirmish with the enemy, resulting in the death of one of the two male protagonists — and a finale that belongs in the Self-Sacrificial Hall of Fame.
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Aumont and Annabella were reunited in Marcel Carne’s “Hôtel du Nord” but that time,they were out-shadowed by the supporting cast,Arletty and Louis Jouvet.

Based on a story by Josef Kessel, L’Equipage was remade by Litvak in Hollywood as The Woman I Love (1937), with Paul Muni (complete with Charles Vanel’s beard!), Miriam Hopkins and Louis Hayward as the romantic triangle

1.15GB | 1h 38mn | 640*480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/7C71B9D229ED719/Anatole_Litvak_-_L’equipage.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English