Bethsabée

Release Date: 1947-11-21

Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.

Rating: 4.25 / 10

Cast

Danielle Darrieux

as Arabella Delvert

Georges Marchal

as Le capitaine Georges Dubreuil

Jean Murat

as Le Colonel de Cervière

Paul Meurisse

as Le capitaine Lucien Sommervill - l'ex amant d'Arabella

Pierre-Louis

as Le lieutenant Testard (as Pierre Louis)