Pierre Renoir took over the role of Jéricho (an informer) after the actor Robert Le Vigan was arrested for being a Nazi collaborator. One of his scenes survives late in the film. A large number of members of the French Resistance worked on this film's crew, as Nazi power was at its peak in France and these fighters needed concealing. The name of the female lead, Garance, is the French word for the flowering plant known as madder in English, from which comes the scarlet pigment. T ...[Read Story ]