Too Late to Love

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Pourquoi viens-tu si tard?
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Directed by Henri Decoin
Written byAlbert Valentin
(adaptation)
Michel Audiard
(dialogue)
Screenplay byHenri Decoin
Pierre Roustang
Based onClaude Brulé
(d'apres une idée)
Produced byRobert Chabert
Pierre Roustang
Starring Michèle Morgan
Henri Vidal
Cinematography Christian Matras
Edited by Claude Durand
Music by Charles Aznavour
Color process Black and white
Production
companies
Ulysse Productions
France Cinéma Productions
Distributed by Cinédis
Release date
  • 6 May 1959 (1959-05-06)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Pourquoi viens-tu si tard? (also known as Why Do You Come So Late? or US title: Too Late to Love) is a 1959 French drama film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Michèle Morgan and Henri Vidal. [1]

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Plot

Reporter-photographer Walter Hermelin meets Catherine Ferrer, a lawyer who must plead in a libel suit against a wine company. She asks Walter to help her get exhibits incriminating the wine merchants. The reporter agrees and takes frightening photographs showing how poor people are incited to drink.

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