This French/Italian effort travelled under the titles
Le Jour Et L'Heure
,
Il Giorno e L'Ora
and
Viviamo Oggi
in Europe. In Great Britain, it was known as
Today We Live
. No matter the title, the film stars Simone Signoret as a world-weary French aristocrat who finds a purpose in life by joining the World War II Resistance. She is ordered by her fellow undergrounders to hide allied paratrooper Stuart Whitman in her own country estate. At first resenting this intrusion in her life, Signoret falls in love with Whitman, and together they try to escape into Spain.
The Day and the Hour
was based on a story by Andre Barret.