In Case of Adversity

In Case of Adversity (French: En cas de malheur), released as Love Is My Profession in the United States, is a 1958 crime drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Edwige Feuillère, Nicole Berger and Franco Interlenghi. The screenplay by Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost is based on the 1956 novel In Case of Emergency by Georges Simenon. It was the second Simenon-based film Gabin starred in that year, after Maigret Sets a Trap. The plot follows a married lawyer who rigs a trial to acquit a young female criminal he has become obsessed with, even to the point of imagining they might have a life together and start a family. The film was released in France on 17 September 1958.