The War, His American Period
During the Second World War, Duvivier left to work in the United States. He made 5 films in these years. Lydia (1941); two anthology films, Tales of Manhattan (1942) with Charles Boyer and Rita Hayworth among leading actors, and Flesh and Fantasy (1943) with Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer and Barbara Stanwyck; The Impostor (1944), a remake of Pépé le Moko and again with Jean Gabin; and Destiny (also 1944), a Reginald Le Borg directed film (Duvivier was uncredited) which was built around a cut thirty-minute sequence from Flesh and Fantasy.
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