Strange Inheritance or The Traveller on All Saints' Day (French: Le voyageur de la Toussaint, Italian: Il viaggiatore d'Ognissanti) is a 1943 French-Italian mystery film directed by Louis Daquin and starring Assia Noris, Jules Berry, Gabrielle Dorziat and Guillaume de Sax. It is an adaptation of the 1941 novel of the same title by Georges Simenon.
The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert. It was made as a co-production between Occupied France and Fascist Italy.
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Synopsis
On a misty November day a young man makes a returns to his hometown of La Rochelle following the death of his Uncle, who has left him his entire fortune. He finds his upper-class family resent him because his parents were both music hall entertainers. He begins to investigate the circumstances of his uncle's suspicious death.
Cast
Assia Noris as Colette Mauvoisin
Jules Berry as Plantel
Gabrielle Dorziat as Gérardine Éloi
Guillaume de Sax as Babin
Jean Desailly as Gilles Mauvoisin
Simone Valère as Alice Lepart
Serge Reggiani as Bob Éloi
Hubert Prélier as Le docteur Sauvaget
Jacques Castelot as Jean Plantel
Jean Didier as Le marin
Martial Rèbe as Lepart
Eugène Yvernès as Le capitaine du navire
Mona Dol as Jaja
Marguerite Ducouret as Madame Rinquet
Marie-Hélène Dasté as Madame Sauvaget
Christiane Ribes as Armandine
Ginette Curtey as Raymonde
Alexandre Rignault as L'inspecteur Rinquet
Louis Seigner as Maître Hervineau
Roger Karl as Pénoux-Rataud
Guy Decomble as Robert
René Blancard as Le directeur du théâtre
Jean Daurand as Un marin
Clary Monthal as Madame Lepart
Albert Rémy as L'ivrogne
Marcel Duhamel as Le juge d'instruction
Gabrielle Fontan as La vieille aubergiste
Léon Larive as Le patron du restaurant
Marguerite de Morlaye as Une invitée du banquet
Simone Signoret as Extra