 because he was in a Nazi concentration camp. A few weeks  before the end of the shooting, Lambert had been arrested by the  Gestapo in a gay bar and sent to Drancy concentration camp, just  outside Paris. Without its main actor, the production was forced to  close down. Tranché, André (qv), the producer, now facing  bankruptcy, tried to have Lambert released, but in vain. After  several agonizing and costly weeks, a replacement was found in the  person of the newcomer Vidal, Henri (qv), who looked uncannily  like Lambert 