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stakes. The two men and the mother desperately pull up the stakes as Allied aircraft mass overhead. They lead the
Americans to the blockhouse but when they enter its perimeter they are caught in a powerful searchlight and have to retreat hastily. Jérôme, still dressed for dinner, walks into the beam and engages the Germans in incoherent conversation until he is close enough to throw a grenade that knocks out the light. After the Americans storm the place, Marie finds her way back and is reunited with her hero husband. Julien, who for the sake of a pretty face failed in his duty, faces disciplinary proceedings. Shells from Allied ships demolish much of the château while Jérôme and Marie, having joined the Resistance, enter Paris with its liberators.
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stranger named Julien who fascinates Marie, seeing in him a means of escaping the twin boredoms of rusticity and matrimony. In fact he is a Free French officer liaising with
Dimanche, who heads the local Resistance, to survey German fortifications before the imminent Allied landings. On the cliff outside the château the Germans have mounted a huge naval gun in an impenetrable blockhouse and Julien deduces that it will have to be taken from behind by parachutists.
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Normandy in May 1944, the peaceable Jérôme lives in his crumbling château with his widowed mother and his beautiful young wife Marie, daughter of Dimanche, a local farmer. She is fed up with country life and dreams of a glamorous existence in Paris. Snooping around the estate is a
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