The great French character Raimu stars in
Strangers in the House
. He is cast as Loursat, the father of teenager Nicole (Juliette Faber). When Nicole's petty-thief boyfriend (Andre Reybas) is accused of murder, Loursat, a once-great attorney who has taken to drink, cleans up his act and defends the lad in court. Filmed in 1942,
attained an American release in 1949, three years after Raimu's death. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, the film was remade in 1967 as
Cop-Out
, with James Mason and in 1992 as
L'Inconnu dans la Maison
with Jean-Paul Belmondo.