Sisters in Arms (French: Soeurs d'armes) is a 1937 French spy drama film directed by Léon Poirier and starring Jeanne Sully, Josette Day and Thomy Bourdelle.Drazin p.185Welch p.162 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Raymond Druart and Hugues Laurent.
Synopsis During the First World War Louise de Bettignies and Léonie Vanhoutte form an underground intelligence operation in German-occupied Belgium and Northern France in conjunction with British military intelligence.
Cast Jeanne Sully as Louise de Bettignies Josette Day as Léonie Vanhoutte Thomy Bourdelle as Le juge Goldschmidt André Nox as Le prêtre Jeanne Marie-Laurent as Madame Vanhoutte Camille Bert as Stoeber Gaston Dupray as Monsieur Lamote Henriette Dupray as Madame Pandelaers
References
Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986. Drazin, Charles . The Faber Book of French Cinema. London: Faber & Faber, 2011. Hayward, Susan. French National Cinema. Routledge, 2004. Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009. Welch, David. Nazi Propaganda: The Power and the Limitations. Routledge, 2014.
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