Le marchand de sable

1932

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On the road to his exotic outpost,a French lieutenant meets a young Russian lady who urges him not to see her again.Later, investigating a series of mysterious deaths, a Russian man he inter... Read allOn the road to his exotic outpost,a French lieutenant meets a young Russian lady who urges him not to see her again.Later, investigating a series of mysterious deaths, a Russian man he interviews imprisons him for digging too deep.On the road to his exotic outpost,a French lieutenant meets a young Russian lady who urges him not to see her again.Later, investigating a series of mysterious deaths, a Russian man he interviews imprisons him for digging too deep.

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Mister Sandman, bring me a nightmare.

Filmed on location in -then French-Algeria , "le marchand de sable " begins to a long tradition of French movies of the thirties which take place in North Africa .

In an outpost where strange things happen , a lieutenant is asked to investigate: some officers become inexplicably ill,some disappear;one is killed by a big hound (shades of Conan doyle 's "Baskerville") .These mysteries lead to a luxury mansion where an exiled Russian -after the 1917 Revolution- keeps deadly secrets and female beauties.

There's a good atmosphere and even some risqué scenes for the time,particularly an orgy with topless women. But the script is not firm enough and the last scenes seem disjointed ;besides Harry Baur would have been a more impressive Rasputin of sorts ;one can prefer , in the murder mystery genre set in Africa, Duvivier's "les cinq gentlemans maudits" .