Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.
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as Jacques Forestier
as Commander Pierre Aubry
as Paul Marcadout
as Self
as The passenger
as Major
as Ketty
as Marcelle Marinier
as A hostess
as A hostess
as A passenger
as Bordas, the radio
as The landlady
as The nightclub singer
as Ms Bastide
as A mechanic
as A passenger
as Doctor
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as A student from the Simon course
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as A student from the Simon course
as A pilot (uncredited)
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as A steward (uncredited)
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