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.
Georges Neveux
Writer
Henri Jeanson
Writer
Jean Delannoy
Writer, Director
Michèle Morgan
Claire Magny
Jean Marais
Jacques Forestier
Jean Chevrier
Commander Pierre Aubry
Robert Murzeau
Paul Marcadout
René Simon
Self
Jacques Louvigny
The passenger
Jim Gérald
Major
Jeannette Batti
Ketty
Colette Mars
Marcelle Marinier
Luna63%
Life in a Year82%
Ce que le jour doit à la nuit76%
Mélo68%
Not Easily Broken63%
Maria's Lovers60%
Noce blanche65%
Sous emprise60%
Time Is Up64%
Sidonie au Japon62%
1 Mile To You64%
Plus que jamais64%
See You Soon59%
The Best of Me75%
Désirée65%
Gabriel's Inferno: Part III83%
Les liaisons dangereuses58%
Ma première fois65%
Gervaise67%
Forever First Love70%
