Les vendanges

For a French audience,the main interest lies in the presence of Michèle Morgan,cast against type as a peasant woman (and a brunette).French oldies buff will recognize Helena Manson,Marcel Peres and Jacques Marin in small parts.

it's difficult to believe John Kerr and the late Mel Ferrer are brothers on the lam,for the youngest committed a crime in his native Italy .Filmed on location near Marseille ,its best scenes depict grape harvest fifty years ago.But the story is too derivative to be really exciting;too much of it is predictable .

It will remind French people of a time when Italians were emigrating into their country,an age that has gone.