![]() Simone Simon plays the Jean Gabin character like a well-tuned musical instrument-and Jane Greer's Kathie is no less successful in manipulating Robert Mitchum's character. Both make it very difficult to distinguish between truth and fiction in what they say to us. Both are highly complex characters with dangerous sexuality and a totally amoral view of life. Simone Simon's Severine Roubaud can and should be seen as the precursor of such similar characters as Jane Greer's Kathie Moffett in the film noir classic "Out of the Past (1947)" almost ten years later. But perhaps the most critical claim this movie can make is to define the basic text of the film noir femme fatale role that was to become such an important aspect of Hollywood's most innovative creations of the late 1940s and early 1950s. ![]() ![]() "La Bete Humaine" is many things-an excellent film version of an Emile Zola novel an outstanding (if little known) work by the famous French film director, Jean Renoir a movie that captures memorable performances by its very capable cast probably the greatest movie to use real trains as an essential plot device ever made and a superbly photographed drama that holds your interest from beginning to end.
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