Daniel GélinFilmography

Hommes, Femmes: Mode d'Emploi

Actors: Fabrice Luchini, Bernard Tapie, Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi

Synopsis: A feather-light and funny musing on the nature of love, fate and starting over, Claude Lelouch's comedy begins with the meeting of Fabio Lini, an actor turned undercover Paris cop and the notorious lawyer-cum-businessman Benoit Blanc . Both have come to the same clinic to have their ulcers Read More

Fantome Avec Chauffeur

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Gérard Jugnot, Jean-Luc Bideau, Charlotte Kady

Synopsis: Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently deceased fellows, Georges, a gentle chauffeur and his ruthless corporate tiger of an employer, Phillipe. Unfortunate Georges meets his demise at the hands of a gunman just as Read More

Fugueuses

Actors: Marie Trintignant, Irène Jacob, Nicole Garcia, Stefano Dionisi

Synopsis: Sullen teenage orphan Johnny Miles (Josh Albee) is wrongfully accused of stealing from his foster parents. Running away from home, Johnny forms a bond with another youthful "runaway"--this one a leopard who has escaped from a nearby wild-animal compound. Both fugitives are sheltered by a harsh but Read More

Les Bidochon

Actors: Anémone, Jean-François Stévenin, Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin

Pushing the Limits

Actors: Fiona Gelin, Marc Twight, Edward Meeks, Eric Bellin, Eric Fradet

Synopsis: This French action movie features spectacular stunts in the air, on the slopes, and in the water as it follows the adventures of daredevils appearing on a popular French TV show. The story begins with Fiona standing upon a mountain peak releasing a beautiful eagle. The tale is told in flashback Read More

E Medeiros, Maria

Des Feux Mal Eteints

Actors: Manuel Blanc, Maria de Medeiros, Emmanuel Salinger, Hélène Vincent

Synopsis: A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive Read More

3000 Scenarios Contre un Virus

Actors: Anémone, Daniel Gélin, Patachou, François Cluzet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

Synopsis: This unique French offering is a compilation of 30 short films focused on AIDS. The mini-films were based on over 3,000 ideas put in by French school children and were made by filmmakers on a voluntary basis. Most of the vignettes deal with heterosexuality and AIDS, but one deals with drug-usage Read More

La Cité de la Peur

Actors: Alain Chabat, Dominique Farrugia, Chantal Lauby, Gérard Darmon, Sam Karmann

Synopsis: This French comedy parodies horror movies and detective films. It is set at the Cannes Film Festival. There, Odile, a sincere publicist, tries to promote the horror movie "Red Is Dead." The movie tells of a killer in a welding mask who wields a hammer and sickle with deadly results. The trouble Read More

Roulez Jeunesse

Actors: Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin, Grégoire Colin, Youssef Diawara

Les Marmottes

Actors: Jean-Hugues Anglade, Christine Boisson, Gérard Lanvin, Jacqueline Bisset, André Dussollier

Synopsis: According to reviewers, an expert cast of character actors make this bedroom farce eminently watchable, despite glitches in the storytelling. In the story, a group of old friends and relations gather each year to celebrate Christmas together on the ski resort of Chamonix. They don't do much Read More

De Force Avec d'autres

Actors: Serge Reggiani, Elsa Zylberstein, Daniel Gélin, Pascale Vignal

Synopsis: In real life, filmmaker Simon Reggiani's father, Serge Reggiani, was a desperately ill elderly alcoholic and also a renowned singer and cinematic leading man (mostly in France). In an effort to sustain his father's interest in life, he cast him in the central role in a biographical Read More

Les Eaux Dormantes

Actors: Philippe Caroit, Marie Adam, Danièle Delorme, Ludmila Mikael

Coup de Jeune

Actors: Martin Lamotte, Ludmila Mikael, Jean Carmet, Daniel Gélin

Un Type Bien

Actors: Alain Beigel, Raoul Billerey, Agnès Obadia, Daniel Gélin

L'Amerique en Otage

Synopsis: A made for cable TV docudrama, former Carter administration aides Hamilton Jordan and Gerald Rafshoon were responsible for the production of this miniseries which recounts the 1979 humiliation of America by a handful of Iranian radicals. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Embassy official married to Read More

Mister Frost

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Alan Bates, Kathy Baker, Roland Giraud, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately Read More

Mauvaise Fille

Actors: Florence Pernel, Daniel Gélin, Yvan Attal, Christian Vadim

Life Is a Long Quiet River

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Benoît Magimel, Valerie Lalande, Catherine Hiegel, Hélène Vincent, André Wilms, Christine Pignet

Synopsis: Life is a Long Quiet River is the satirically philosophical title for this French domestic comedy. Borrowing a page from The Corsican Brothers, the film begins with a castoff mistress spitefully switching a pair of newborn babies at the maternity ward managed by her doctor lover. As a result, the Read More

Dandin

Actors: Zabou, Claude Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Nelly Borgeaud, Jean-Claude Adelin

Synopsis: Claude Brasseur stars in this cinemadaptation of the Moliere play Georges Dandin, ou le mari confondu. Written in 1668, the play has been somewhat dwarfed by such like-vintage Moliere classics as The Imaginary Invalid. Still, it was popular enough in its time to inspire imitation, most notably Read More

Itinéraire d'un Enfant Gaté

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Richard Anconina, Marie-Sophie L., Béatrice Agenin, Daniel Gélin, Jean-Philippe Chatrier

Synopsis: French director Claude Lelouch, of Man and a Woman fame, called the shots on Itineraire D'un Enfant Gate. Jean-Paul Belmondo (who co-produced the film) stars as a powerful international businessman who, in his youth, had been a carnival performer. Once more bitten by wanderlust, Sam Lion (Read More

Securite Publique

Actors: Sophie Duez, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Daniel Gélin, Bernard Haller

Hitchcock, II Brivido Del Genio

Actors: Patricia Hitchcock, Sylvia Sidney, Anne Baxter, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson

Synopsis: Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred Hitchcock. Among those interviewed who provide a bit of humor in the bargain are Philippe Noiret and Joan Fontaine. The "master of suspense" is shown according to stereotypes Read More

Blitz

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Senta Berger, Agnes Soral, Daniel Gélin, Stefan Meinke

Synopsis: In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda (Jurgen Prochnow) has given his patented worldcar to a German automaker for Read More

Un Delitto

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Margaret Mazzantini, Emmanuelle Riva, Nino Castelnuovo

Synopsis: When a wealthy, elderly woman and an unknown stranger are murdered in the same small village on the same night, the judge who is charged with investigating the deaths begins to suspect that a new arrival in the village is connected to the crime. The only serious obstacle to chasing down that Read More

Les Enfants

Actors: Pierre Arditi, Martine Chevalier, André Dussollier, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: More of a commentary on life as seen by Marguerite Duras than a movie on a family's internal relationships, this intriguing story focuses on Ernesto, a seven-year-old (played by the adult Alexander Bougosslavsky) who leaves school after several weeks because he is not interested in learning. Read More

La Nuit De Varennes

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

Guy De Maupassant

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Jean Carmet, Simone Signoret, Miou-Miou, Anne-Marie Philipe

Synopsis: This fictionalized biography of Guy de Maupassant uses his dying days, suffering under the last ravages of syphilis, to anchor a series of flashbacks that bring his life into view -- though much of that view is tempered by the famed author's passion for sexual encounters. The rest of the vignettes Read More

Sezona Mira U Parizu

Actors: Maria Schneider, Dragan Nikolic, Alain Noury, Alida Valli, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good. They are both survivors from Nazi concentration camps which automatically gives them a kindred understanding. Their past comes back Read More

Signe Furax

Actors: Bernard Haller, Jean-Pierre Darras, Dany Saval, Mylène Demongeot

L'Oeil du Maitre

Actors: Patrick Chesnais, Olivier Granier, Dominique Laffin, Marina Vlady, Michel Aumont

Synopsis: A hot topic might be overly simplified for some viewers in this first-time political drama by Stephane Kurc. Marc (Patrick Chesnais) is a leftist and leans more towards militancy than compromise in his work at a Paris television station. Unlike Marc, his friend Françoise (Olivier Granier) is Read More

L'Honorable Societe

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Anicée Alvina, Marcel Dalio, Hugues Quester

Nous Irons Tous au Paradis

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Claude Brasseur, Guy Bedos, Victor Lanoux, Danièle Delorme

Synopsis: This French comedy is the sequel to the well-regarded Pardon Mon Affaire. This version centers on the sexual fantasies of a quartet of four married, middle-class men attempting to deal with the onset of middle-age. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Linceul n'a Pas de Poches

Actors: Jean-Pierre Mocky, Jean Carmet, Michel Constantin, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Sometimes a reporter's urge to tell the truth is unquenchable, at least when the reporter is Dolannes (Jean-Pierre Mocky). Unfortunately, his newspaper is owned by corporations which like to keep things on an even keel, and his stories are often "spiked," (kept quiet). Frustrated, he leaves the Read More

Trop C'est Trop

Actors: Didier Kaminka, Philippe Ogouz, Georges Beller, Claudia Wells, Claude Jade

Synopsis: In this madcap comedy, a completely unavailable girl is the object of the fantasies of three guys who have been pals for years. They eventually follow her (literally) to heaven and hell, but satisfaction does not attend their efforts. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Polizia E Al Servizio Del Cittadino

Far from Dallas

Synopsis: This French thriller is based upon a theory about the conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy. The story begins as a reporter is informed that one of his friends may have been shot by two gunmen in an American car. The reporter goes out looking for his friend, who did not die after the Read More

Murmur of the Heart

Actors: Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Benoit Ferreux, Marc Wincourt

Synopsis: Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the Read More

Christa

Actors: Birthe Tove

Synopsis: In this Danish movie by an American director, Birthe Tove plays Christa, a ravishingly beautiful airline stewardess who lives, it seems, to seduce men. Her seductions include men whom she is not able to take to her bed. All of these men are stunned by her beauty and her aggressiveness, and serve Read More

La Servante

Actors: France Anglade, Daniel Gélin, Ulla Jacobsson, Gisella Hahn

Synopsis: A French couple's marital bliss is interrupted by the presence of a pretty young maid. The husband (Daniel Gelin) is a successful doctor whose wife (Ulla Jacobson) hires Aline (France Anglade), a young provincial girl. She masturbates while the couple makes love one night, and the wife is always Read More

Slogan

Actors: Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Andréa Parisy, Juliet Berto, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: A successful ad man engages in illicit affairs in this romantic comedy satire. Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is an annual winner at the advertising awards festival held annually in Venice. When he meets the pretty British woman Evelyne (Jane Birkin), he sets her up in an apartment and plans to leave Read More

La Treve

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Charles Denner, Virginie Vignon

Synopsis: Two vacationing businessmen -- or are they gangsters? -- inflict endless humiliations upon one another by way of their henchmen and women in this offbeat comedy, as they make their way to a chateau on a stolen invitation to play in a high-stakes poker game. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Hallucinations Sadiques

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Sabine Sun, Jean-Claude Bercq, Anouk Ferjac

Detruire, Dit-Elle

Actors: Catherine Sellers, Nicole Hiss, Henri Garcin, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: A professor, his wife, a student, and a married woman travel to a hotel on the edge of the forest for a week-long vacation. The forest represents the world outside their experiences and spheres of influence. When they enter the forest, their thoughts, words and actions become one. The married Read More

Le Mois Le Plus Beau

Actors: Georges Géret, Michel Galabru, Daniel Gélin, Magali Noël, Yves Robert, Muriel Baptiste

Synopsis: A French soldier is discharged from the army and returns to his village in the early days of World War ll. His daughter is pregnant, but the father is the son of the local mayor, who refuses to let his son marry the girl. When Italy declares war on France, two Italian workers are nearly lynched by Read More

Zeugin Aus Der Hoelle

Actors: Irene Papas, Heinz Drache, Daniel Gélin, Werner Peters, Jean Claudio

Synopsis: In this drama, a Yugoslavian journalist is hired by a German policeman to find the last surviving ex-inmate of a concentration camp. The cops want her because they believe she witnessed atrocities at the hands of the camp physician. The journalist finds her and the cops and prosecutors try to Read More

Soleil Noir

Actors: Michele Mercier, Daniel Gélin, Valentina Cortese, Jean Topart

Synopsis: Michele Mercier, leading lady of many a quasi-erotic Angelique film, stars in the French Black Sun. This time Mercier plays a young Gallic heiress. She's in Algeria, looking for her long-lost brother. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes her way from every nook and cranny. Valentina Cortese Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

L'Heure de la verite

Synopsis: Originally L'Heure de la Verte, the French Hour of Truth Stars Brett Halsey, Corinne Marchand and Karl Boehm. At the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp victim. 20 years later, he is threatened with exposure. The only way out would seem to be Read More

Ligne De Demarcation

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The people of a small town in France react differently to the Nazi occupation in this World War II action drama directed by Claude Chabrol. Mary (Jean Seberg) is willing to risk her life to help the resistance movement in spite of her husband's acceptance of the situation. The movement is slowed Read More

À Belles Dents

Actors: Mireille Darc, Jacques Charrier, Paul Hubschmid, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Eva Mireille Darc is an orphaned country girl who comes to the big city looking for love in this old-fashioned melodrama. Getting a job as an au pair, Eva is noticed by her employer, a fashion photographer. She becomes a cover-girl model and finds steady work and a steady architect boyfriend, but Read More

The Sleeping Car Murders

Actors: Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Mondy, Simone Signoret, Catherine Allegret, Jacques Perrin

Synopsis: The first film directed by Costa-Gavras, The Sleeping Car Murders was based on a novel by Sebastien Japrisot. During a Marseilles-to-Paris overnight train trip, a girl is found dead in a sleeping car. As Paris detective Yves Montand steps up his investigation, more and more passengers turn up Read More

Parodie Parade

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Vera Norman, Daniel Gélin, Anne Campion

El Nino y el Muro

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Nino del Arco, Linda Christian

Synopsis: A five-year-old boy playing in West Germany accidently kicks his ball through a hole in the Berlin wall in this children's story that is a thinly disguised political statement. Unable to retrieve his favorite toy, he watches as East German children delight in playing with the ball. ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

La Bonne Soupe

Actors: Marie Bell, Annie Girardot, Claude Dauphin, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and Read More

The Longest Day

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

Reglements De Compte

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Dany Carrel, Noël Roquevert, Bryant Halliday

Cartagine in Fiamme

Actors: Anne Heywood, José Suárez, Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Ilaria Occhini

Synopsis: This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director Carmine Gallone. The tale is set in 200 BC when Rome and Carthage were going at it, sending warships into battle over control of Carthage. Against this backdrop of warfare Read More

La Morte Saison des Amours

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Daniel Gélin, Françoise Prevost, Pierre Vaneck

Synopsis: A routine, wordy romantic drama about far-from-routine relationships, this tale by Pierre Kast looks at the personalities and love life of two couples. One couple is comprised of a writer and his wife, the writer being egocentric and out of inspiration after his one good novel. His wife is Read More

Reveille-Toi Cherie

Actors: François Perier, Daniel Gélin, Geneviève Cluny

Synopsis: Claude Magnier translated his stage play into this routine film which given its source, runs to words over action and visual nuances. The premise provides enough fodder to keep conversation going for some time, however. A man is driving in the countryside when he has car trouble and is forced to Read More

The Testament of Orpheus

Actors: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermit, Yul Brynner, Henri Cremieux, Maria Casarés, Luis Miguel Dominguin, François Perier

Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The Read More

La Proie Pour L'ombre

Actors: Annie Girardot, Daniel Gélin, Christian Marquand, Michéle Girardon

Synopsis: Director Alexandre Astruc is known for his abstract, avant-garde works such as this interesting film about a woman longing for independence. Anna (Annie Girardon) is married to Eric (Daniel Gelin) who has old-fashioned ideas about a woman never working (outside the home, that is). But Eric is also Read More

Port of Desire

Synopsis: In this tragedy, a sailor heads to Hamburg to search for the girl who became his friend a decade before when he had been a POW in Germany. He finds her in the red-light district, the Reeperbahn, where she works as a mud-wrestler in a crummy dive. She hates her job, and she hates the seedy Read More

Julie the Redhead

Synopsis: Sly and greedy young people endeavor to use l'amour to get their hands on a fortune in this French comedy. The story begins when an aspiring young artist falls hopelessly in love with his model Julie, an extraordinarily beautiful redhead. He desperately wants to marry her, but his father Read More

Julie La Rousse

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Pascale Petit, Rene-Louis Lafforgue, Margo Lion

Synopsis: Released in 1963 in the U.S. under the title Julie the Redhead, this average yarn by director Claude Boissol begins with a first generation love story that is intentionally repeated in the second generation. When an artist falls in love with his model, he wants no more than to marry her and live Read More

La Fille de Hambourg

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Hildegarde Neff, Jean Lefebvre, Daniel Sorano

Synopsis: Yves Allegret's 3DLa Fille de Hambourg3D (literally 3DThe Girl of Hambourg3D) was released stateside as 3DPort of Desire3D. The film focuses on a former French POW named Pierre (Daniel Gelin) who returns to Germany after the war to seek out a fraulein named Maria (Hildegarde Knef), who extended Read More

Suivez-Moi Jeune Homme

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Dany Robin, Noël Roquevert, Georges Chamarat

Love in a Hot Climate

Synopsis: In this tragedy, a matador is deeply shaken by the death of a good friend who was gored in the ring and decides to retire. He then moves to a ranch to begin raising fighting bulls. His attempts at peace are disrupted by a nagging girlfriend who wants her lover to keep on being a national hero. Read More

Ce Corps Tant Desire

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Dany Carrel, Maurice Ronet, Belinda Lee

Synopsis: A prostitute is courted by two half-brothers. She marries one, and then must deal with the fallout of domestic friction. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Trois Jours A Vivre

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Jeanne Moreau, Roland Armontel, Aimé Clariond

Synopsis: Trois Jours a Vivre (Three Days to Live) takes off with a bang when two-bit actor Daniel Gelin witnesses a murder. He didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets Gelin as his next victim. Our Read More

Retour de Manivelle

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Daniel Gélin, Peter Van Eyck, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Retour de Manivelle (The Turn of the Handle) is an acceptable French approximation of Hollywood "film noir" techniques. Artist Peter Van Eyck rescues Daniel Gelin from drowning, takes the man home, and makes him his chauffeur. Gelin does his job well, even managing to fend off the romantic Read More

Too Many Lovers

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a lovely chanteuse finds herself in very strange series of situations. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Maid in Paris

Synopsis: In this romantic French drama, a young country girl heads for the City of Light to find romance and good fortune. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Charmants Garcons

Actors: Zizi Jeanmaire, Daniel Gélin, Henri Vidal, François Perier

Synopsis: Zizi Jeanmaire, the delightful French singer/actress who previously brightened such American films as Hans Christian Andersen and Anything Goes, is the star of Charmants Garcons (Charming Boys). Jeanmaire is appropriately cast as a nightclub entertainer named Lulu, who is surrounded by a throng of Read More

Bonsoir Paris Bonjour L'Amour

Actors: Dany Robin, Daniel Gélin, Georges Reich

Synopsis: This French musical comedy is set in guess what European city? Daniel Gelin and Dany Robin play brother-and-sister nonconformists, who go out on the town for a night of cool jazz music and dancing (not with each other, of course!) In the course of the evening, Robin falls in love with Austrian Read More

Je Reviendrai A Kandara

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Bella Darvi, François Perier

Synopsis: The plot of Je Revendrai a Kandara is buried somewhere in its title, which translates to I'll Get Back to Kandara. Francois Perier plays a mild-mannered professor who inadvertently witnesses a murder while stopping over in the titular locale. The problem here is that the professor, feeling Read More

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie, Bernard Miles, Daniel Gélin, Ralph Truman

Synopsis: The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who Read More

Plucking the Daisy

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Brigitte Bardot, Dr. Robert Hirsch, Darry Cowl

Synopsis: Because of star Brigitte Bardot's single fleeting disrobing scene in the French farce Please, Mr. Balzac!, the film was retitled Mademoiselle Striptease by one enterprising American distributor. Essentially, this is a harmless little escapade in which Bardot, escaping the strictures of her Read More

Mort En Fraude

Actors: Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: Mort en Fraude (aka Fraudulent Death and Fugitive in Saigon) was co-adapted by Jean Hougron from his own novel. The inward-looking plotline deals with France's Indochina debacle of 1950. Agreeing to smuggle a package into Saigon, apolitical Frenchman Horcier (Daniel Gelin) is waylaid and robbed by Read More

Napoléon

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More

Les Amants du Tage

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Françoise Arnoul, Trevor Howard, Ginette Leclerc, Betty Stockfeld

Synopsis: Les Amants du Tage (The Lovers of Tage) was based on a novel by Joseph Kessel. Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form Read More

Paris Canaille

Actors: Dany Robin, Tilda Thamar, Daniel Gélin

La Romana

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Daniel Gélin, Raymond Pellegrin, Franco Fabrizi, Pina Piovani

Synopsis: La Romana (Women of Rome) is a worthwhile early starring vehicle for Gina Lollobrigida. "La Lollo" plays a young woman who is strong-armed into a modelling career by her ambitious mother. Before long, she discovers that there's a lot more money to be had if she sells her body rather than merely Read More

L'Allegro Squadrone

Actors: Charles Vanel, Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Jean Richard

L'Affaire Maurizius

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Charles Vanel, Daniel Gélin, Eleonora Rossi-Drago

La Neige Etait Sale

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Valentine Tessier, Marie Mansart, Daniel Ivernel

Synopsis: La Niege Etait Sale (The Snow Was Dirty) is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill Read More

Si Versailles M'Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claudette Colbert, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs in Versailles. In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period Read More

Rumeur Publique

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Maria Mauban, Delia Scala

Synopsis: Rumeur Publique (Public Rumor) is a complicated story rendered nearly incomprehensible by poor English-language dubbing. Seeking a major news story, journalist Jaier (Daniel Gelin) pounces upon a mysterious small-town death. A young wife has fallen down a huge flight of stairs, and her husband is Read More

L'Esclave

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Barbara Laage, Gerard Landry

La Voce Del Silenzio

Synopsis: La Voca del Silenzio (Voice of Silence) was the only Italian production of fabled German director G. W. Pabst. Based on a concept by neorealism specialist Cesar Zavattini (fleshed out by a team of =12= prominent writers, including Pabst himself and Jean Cocteau), the film follows a small group of Read More

La Maison Du Silence

Actors: Jean Marais, Daniel Gélin, Frank Villard, Aldo Fabrizi

The Maurizius Case

Sang et Lumiere

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Henri Vilbert, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Christine Carère

Synopsis: Sang et Lumieres (Blood and Light) stars Daniel Gelin as Ricardo, a dashing matador. After a fellow bullfighter is killed in the ring, Ricardo decides it's time to retire. As a result, his fickle movie-actress mistress Marilena (Zsa Zsa Gabor) flounces out of his life. He is then targeted for Read More

Rue de L'Estrapade

Actors: Anne Vernon, Louis Jourdan, Daniel Gélin, Micheline Dax

Synopsis: Rue de L'Estrapade was filmmaker Jacques Becker's immediate follow-up to his 1952 classic Casque D'Or. That the film does not quite measure up to its predecessor shouldn't be held against it. Anne Vernon and Louis Jourdan play Francoise and Henri, a happily married Parisian couple. Despite his Read More

On Trial

Synopsis: In this crime a district attorney's son investigates a suspicious conviction and learns a valuable lesson about the difference between justice and truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Minute De Vérité

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Daniel Gélin, Lia Di Leo

Synopsis: La Minute de Verite (The Moment of Truth) stars Jean Gabin as happily married French physician Pierre. Upon treating a would-be suicide, Pierre finds out that his patient was once the lover of the doctor's wife Madeleine (Michele Morgan). Confronting his wife with this information, Pierre is Read More

Adorables Créatures

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gélin, Antonella Lualdi, Edwige Feuillère, Marilyn Buferd, Martine Carol

Synopsis: Newly married Daniel Gelin spends most of Adorable Creatures reflecting longingly on his previous amours. One of his past conquests was unhappy housewife Danielle Darrieux. Another was insatiable widow Edwige Feuillere. And yet another was avaricious Martine Carol (then married to director Read More

Le Plaisir

Actors: Claude Dauphin, Jean Galland, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Daniel Gélin, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin

Synopsis: The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the possible exception of Georges Simenon). Max Ophuls harnesses three Maupassant short stories to suit his artistic purposes in Le Plaisir (House of Pleasure). In "The Mask," an Read More

Les Dents Longues

Crew: Director

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Danièle Delorme, Jean Chevrier, Louis Seigner

Chicago Digest

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Michel Piccoli, Anne Campion

Les Mains Sales

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Daniel Gélin, Claude Nollier, Jacques Castelot

Synopsis: Les Main Sales is based on the Jean-Paul Sartre play of the same name. The hero, Hugo Barine (Daniel Gelin), is a dedicated communist. Hugo suffers a crisis of conscience when he is ordered to assassinate his Marxist mentor Hoederer (Pierre Brasseur) at the behest of a more radical Red faction. It Read More

Une Histoire d'amour

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Dany Robin, Daniel Gélin, Georges Chamarat

Synopsis: Une Histoire D'Amour served as the last starring film of Louis Jouvet, who died in 1951 at the age of 63. Jouvet is cast as Planche, a philosophical police inspector, investigating the suicides of two young lovers. Though he really doesn't have to, Planche delves into the past to find out what Read More

Edouard et Caroline

Actors: Anne Vernon, Elina Labourdette, Daniel Gélin, Jacques Francois

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jacques Becker's Edouard et Caroline has been described as a film without a story. This isn't quite true, though the most memorable aspect of the film is the byplay between the two title characters. Edouard (Daniel Gelin) is a young, headstrong musician. Caroline (Anne Vernon) is Read More

La Ronde

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series of character vignettes, set in Vienna in the early 1900s and held together by a narrator (Anton Walbrook). As the title implies, both the story and the film's visual motifs Read More

Dieu a Besoin des Hommes

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine Robinson, Daniel Gélin, Daniel Ivernel, Andrée Clement

Synopsis: French filmmaker Jean Dellanoy once again combines visual poetry with box-office savvy in Dieu a Besoin des Hommes. Set on a remote French coastal island in the 19th century, the film stars Pierre Fresnay as a peasant named Thomas. In the absence of a priest, Thomas, the village sacristan, is Read More

Rendez-Vous de Juillet

Actors: Daniel Gélin, Bernard Lajarrige, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Courcel, Brigitte Auber

Synopsis: Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de Juillet has been credited as the first postwar European film to accurately depict the Continental "youth culture." Teenaged Lucien (Daniel Gelin) aspires to become a filmmaker, and to that end organizes his friends into a film unit. The young cineastes hope to make Read More

Le Mannequin Assassine

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Anne Vernon, Gilbert Gil, Daniel Gélin

Martin Roumagnac

Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin, Daniel Gélin, Margo Lion

Synopsis: Absent from the screen since 1944's Kismet, the incomparable Marlene Dietrich returned in the French romantic melodrama Martin Roumagnac. La Dietrich is cast opposite Jean Gabin, here playing a small-town contractor with an eye for the ladies. He is entranced by Dietrich, a woman who's "been Read More

La Nuit De Sibylle

Actors: Paulette Elambert, Daniel Gélin, Pierre Larquey

Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir

Actors: Madeleine Sologne, Michel Simon, Paul Bernard, Louis Salou

Synopsis: Returning to films after a six-year absence, French director Raymond Bernard called the shots on Un Ami Viendra Ce Soir (A Friend Will Come Tonight). Michel Simon heads the cast of this pulse-pounding WWII resistance film, set surprisingly in an insane asylum. In truth, the establishment is but a Read More

La Tentation de Barbizon

Actors: Simone Renant, François Perier, Pierre Larquey, Daniel Gélin

Synopsis: La Tentation de Barbizon is a romantic fantasy, a genre quite popular in postwar France. Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy, in fact, that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. Intending to break up the romance, the Dark Prince Read More

Premier Rendez-Vous

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Ledoux, Rosine Luguet, Jean Tissier, Sophie Desmarets, Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a lonely orphan answers a singles ad in a paper and then slips out of the orphanage to meet the man whose letters she has come to love. However, the college professor she meets has actually been ghost writing for the real lonely heart. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More