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.
Michèle Morgan
as Claire Magny
Jean Marais
as Jacques Forestier
Jean Chevrier
as Commander Pierre Aubry
Robert Murzeau
as Paul Marcadout
René Simon
as Self
Jacques Louvigny
as The passenger
Jim Gérald
as Major
Jeannette Batti
as Ketty
Colette Mars
as Marcelle Marinier
Simone Barillier
as
Denise Precheur
as A hostess
Lucien Dorval
as
