THE DAY AND THE HOUR (1963) starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman, Geneviève Page and Michel Piccoli; screenplay by René Clément and Roger Vailland, based on a story by André Barret; directed by René Clément In the spring of 1944, a French woman must get one American and two British pilots on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American.