No Second Take
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Author
Joe Joyce
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Hollywood veteran Martin Harris is an electrician at Les Victorines studios in Nice during the Second World War where celebrated French director Marcel Carne is filming one of his classics, Les Visiteurs du Soir.
Harris still enjoys living in Nice in spite of the wartimes tensions. With his own secret past, he remains aloof from them. But his detachment unravels when his girlfriend Solange is falsely accused of having an abortion -- a capital crime in Vichy France.
He seeks the help of a police acquaintance but the tables are quickly turned on him. The secret police want information on communist activities at the studio. And he knows they include a plot to assassinate the German Luftwaffe officer who is having a highly visible collaborationist affair with France's leading actress.
Caught between protecting his girlfriend and informing on his friends, Harris is forced also to confront the secrets of his own past that led him to France.
