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The Messenger

Directed by	Raymond Rouleau
Written by	Marcel Achard Henri Bernstein (play)
Produced by	Alexandre Kamenka
Starring	Gaby Morlay Jean Gabin Mona Goya
Cinematography	Jules Kruger
Edited by	Maurice Serein
Music by	Georges Auric
Production company	Films Albatros
Distributed by	Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date	2 September 1937 (1937-09-02)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Messenger (French: Le messager, or also known as Messenger Boy) is a 1937 French drama film directed by Raymond Rouleau and starring Gaby Morlay, Jean Gabin and Mona Goya.^[1] It was based on a play by Henri Bernstein. Morlay reprised her role while Victor Francen, who had played the male lead on stage, was replaced by Gabin.

It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and the Victorine Studios in Nice. The film's art direction was by Eugène Lourié.

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After leaving his socialite wife to marry her secretary, Nick Dange finds his well-connected wife has arranged for him to be made unemployable in Paris. The only work that he is able to get is to manage a mine in Uganda.

He feels lonely and isolated, thousands of miles from his wife. His only companion is a fellow worker named Jack. When Jack returns to Paris after being injured, Nick asks him to take a message to his wife.

Yet she is also lonely and begins an affair with Jack, who has already come to idolize her from the descriptions that Nick had made back in Africa. Yet when Nick returns to Paris and discovers the illicit relationship, Jack commits suicide.