title: Pierre Chenal
text: # Pierre Chenal
  
  Pierre Chenal (French:; 5 December 1904 – 23 December 1990) was a French director and screenwriter who flourished in the 1930s. He was married to Czech-born French film actress Florence Marly from 1937 to 1955.
  
  ## Work
  
  Chenal was best known for film noir thrillers such as the 1937 film L'Alibi, where he worked with Erich von Stroheim and Louis Jouvet. In 1939 he made Le Dernier Tournant, the first of many film treatments of James M. Cain's celebrated novel, The Postman Always Rings Twice.
  
  Chenal was Jewish and was forced in 1942 to flee occupied France with his wife, Czech actress Florence Marly, for South America. He made a number of films while living in Argentina and more in France after the war; but his post-war work never achieved the success and popularity of his pre-war efforts.
  
  ## Filmography
  
  * 1970 : Les belles au bois dormantes (as Dave Young)
  * 1963 : The Murderer Knows the Score
  * 1960 : The Night They Killed Rasputin
  * 1959 : Beast at Bay
  * 1958 : Dangerous Games
  * 1957 : Sinners of Paris [fr]
  * 1956 : Section des disparus
  * 1954 : Confession at Dawn
  * 1952 : El ídolo
  * 1951 : Native Son
  * 1948 : Scandals of Clochemerle
  * 1946 : Devil and the Angel
  * 1946 : Viaje sin regreso
  * 1945 : Se abre el abismo
  * 1944 : The Corpse Breaks a Date
  * 1943 : Todo un hombre
  * 1939 : Le Dernier Tournant
  * 1938 : The Lafarge Case
  * 1937 : The Man from Nowhere
  * 1937 : The Alibi
  * 1937 : The Former Mattia Pascal
  * 1936 : Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
  * 1935 : Crime and Punishment
  * 1934 : Street Without a Name
  * 1933 : Fat Man's Worries
  