Strange Inheritance (film)


Strange Inheritance or The Traveller on All Saints' Day 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.

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.

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