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2006
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Antonin (Fernandel) works on a farm and takes care of the animals in this sentimental comedy. When his boss tells him his...
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Antonin
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1969
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Beloved French comic Fernadel displays his flair for the dramatic in this somber drama. Quantin (Fernadel) is a mild-mannered...
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Quantin
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1966
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1966
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Don Camillo (Fernandel) is a priest who travels to Moscow in this comedy culture clash. Don accompanies his archival...
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Don Camillo
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1965
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1964
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Emile (Jean Gabin) and his family travel to the South of France to meet the parents of the man who is to marry his daughter...
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Adelphe
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1964
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In this WWII comedy, a French POW escapes and hides at an inn. After the war, he stays at the inn to help the innkeeper,...
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Fernand Jouvin
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1963
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1963
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There is nothing especially exceptional about this comedy-drama which focuses on a certain Guillaume (Fernandel) who lives in...
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Guillaume
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1963
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Jeff Burlington
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1963
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Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and...
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God [Episode 5]
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1962
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1962
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Fernandel plays a most unlikely western bandit in the French spoof Dynamite Jack. Actually, the horse-faced comedian essays a...
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Dynamite Jack/Antoine
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1961
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1961
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1961
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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Famed French comic Fernandel cannot do much for this uninspired mystery story with intended comedic overtones by director...
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Albert
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1961
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This is a routine comedy by novice director and novelist Jean Giono about Jules (Fernandel) a wily French peasant who dallies...
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Jules
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1960
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This musical performance features the streets of Paris and the girls of the French Can-Can. ~ Rovi...
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1960
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Between 1951 and 1972 Bernard Borderie directed many "B"-grade films, and this low-budget, rapidly made comedy is one of...
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Migonnet
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1960
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The Cow and I is purportedly based on the wartime experiences of its star, French farceur Fernandel. The horse-faced comedian...
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Charles Bailly
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1959
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French comedian Fernandel stars in this entertaining comedy based on a short story by O. Henry, The Ransom of Red Chief....
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Antoine
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1959
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Fernandel plays a French customs sergeant who conducts an ongoing war of nerves with Italian smuggler Toto on the...
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Ferdinand Pastorelli
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1958
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The French-filmed Senechal the Magnificent is set during World War II. Fernandel plays a none-too-intelligent travelling...
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1958
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Le Confident de ces Dames is a wacky though uneven comedy held up by the talents of Fernandel, playing a veterinarian. The...
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Veterinarian
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1958
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Henri (Fernandel) returns to his homeland after spending several years abroad. Staying with a wealthy friend, he finds his...
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Henri
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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Marcel
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1958
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1957
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The raincoated gent of the title is horse-faced French comedian Fernandel, who plays luckless jazz musician Albert...
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Albert Constantin
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1957
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Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris...
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Fernydel
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1957
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Tistin
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1957
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Horse-faced farceur Fernandel is definitely not the title character in the Franco-Spanish spoof Don Juan. Like Bob Hope in...
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1957
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1956
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Honore de Marseille
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1956
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1956
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This Gallic farce is better known to "Late Late Show" fanatics as Fernandel the Dressmaker. Sure enough, horse-faced...
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Fernand
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Don Camillo e l'on Peppone was the third in a series of film comedies based on characters created by Giovanni Gareschi....
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Don Camillo
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1955
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Perhaps because its American distribution was brief, Le Printemps, L'Autumne et L'Amour is one of the lesser-known Fernandel...
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1955
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1955
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Mam'zelle Nitouche represented Fernandel's only 1954 film vehicle. The horse-faced comic actor is cast as Celestin, an...
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Celestin
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1954
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The matchless French farceur Fernandel essays six different roles in The Sheep Has Five Legs. We first see the horse-faced...
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Edourd Alain Bernard
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1954
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Fernandel is the somewhat over-aged Ali Baba in this astonishingly expensive Arabian Nights escapade. In this filmization of...
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Ali Baba
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1954
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Lantern-jawed French comedian Fernandel plays a dual role in Most Wanted Man. He stars as an ordinary Joe (or ordinary...
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Joe Calvet
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1953
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Retour de Don Camillo (The Return of Don Camillo) is the sequel to the internationally popular French comedy...
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Don Camillo
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1953
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Felisen
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1953
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Dardamelle
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1953
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An irate husband announces his wife's adulterous activities by placing a billboard a top his house in this comedy. He then...
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1953
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Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the...
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Don Camillo
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1952
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Dr. Charles Pellegrin
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1952
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Monsieur Fernandel plays the sheep-shearer, who makes a decision to say goodbye to the little lambs and to concentrate on the...
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Marius-Mario
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1952
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Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a...
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The Monk
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1951
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1951
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Two Italian films directed by Mario Soldati were released in Europe within two days of each other. The first was the...
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1951
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1951
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Arbain
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1951
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Previously filmed twice in 1933, Marcel Pagnol's satirical stage comedy Topaze was again adapted to the screen in 1936, this...
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1951
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Famed French actor and singer Fernandel headlines this comedy centered on a case of mistaken identity involving a hapless...
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Casimir
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1950
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1950
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Produced in 1950, the French Three Sinners was adapted by Charles Plisnier from his own novel Meurtres. The film was billed...
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Noel Annequin
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1950
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1950
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1949
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1949
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1948
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Alfred Puc
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1948
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1947
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Petrus is a tailor-made vehicle for lantern-jawed French farceur Fernandel. The star plays a naïve photographer who falls in...
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1946
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1946
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1945
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Les Gueux Au Paradis (Hoboes in Paradise) stars two of Marseilles' favorite sons, Fernandel and Raimu. Set during the reign...
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Pons
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1945
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Toine
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1945
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Le Mystere de Saint-Val stars Fernandel as a mousy insurance-office clerk who dreams of being a great detective. The clerk's...
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1944
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That matchless Gallic comedian Fernandel is but one of the many spicy ingredients of Love Around the Clock. The film's...
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Deadbeat
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1943
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1943
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1942
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Director, Simplet
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1942
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1942
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1941
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1941
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1941
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The Well-Digger's Daughter served to reunite star Raimu and writer/director Marcel Pagnol, who'd earlier scored an...
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Felipe Rambert
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1941
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Fadinard
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1940
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Filmed during the war, this little-known Fernandel vehicle finally attained an American release in 1951. The star plays...
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Armand Lavarede
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1939
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In this comedy, a jeweler's helper jilts the boss's daughter for another girl, who turns out to be a gem thief's moll....
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Marcel
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1939
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1939
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1939
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Le Schpountz (Heartbeat) stars Fernandel as a feckless country boy named Saturnin who fancies himself the second coming of...
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Irenee
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1938
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The inimitable Fernandel stars as Barnabe in this French musical farce. Most of the action takes place at a huge chateau,...
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1938
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1938
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1938
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1938
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Horse-faced Gallic comedian Fernandel plays Hercule in this tailor-made vehicle. Our hero is a somewhat simple-minded...
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1937
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In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all...
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Fabien Coutissol
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1937
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1937
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Originally Regain, this Marcel Pagnol masterwork was distributed in the US in 1939, two years after its completion; the...
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Gedemus
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1937
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1937
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Originally released in 1937 as Francois 1er, Christian-Jacque's Francis the First didn't attain an American release for...
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Honorin
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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French writer/director Marcel Pagnol didn't do much editing when he transferred Jean Glono's excessively long novel Angele to...
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Saturnin
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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L'Odonnance (The Orderly) is based on the Guy de Maupassant story of the same name. After the sudden and unexpected suicide...
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Etienne
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1933
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1932
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Every so often, director Maurice Tourneur recharged his creative batteries with such trifles as Gaietes de L'Escadron. The...
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1932
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1932
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Paris Beguin finds Parisian cinema star Jean Gabin playing a familiar role, that of the martyred criminal with a golden...
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1931
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Also known as Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, He is based on a story by Guy De Maupassant. The story takes place in a tiny French...
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1931
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Sacha Guitry wrote the play on which Le Blanc et le Noir was based, but it was Hollywood-trained Robert Florey who officially...
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Le Groom
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1931
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