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Actors: Tilda Thamar, Roger Pigaut, Gerard Landry
Synopsis: Jacqueline Audry, the director of the 1948 hit Gigi, called the shots on 1954's La Caraque Blonde (The Blonde Gypsy). Tilda Thamar plays the title character, a voluptuous golden-haired gypsy lass named Myra. Rising to fame as a dancer, Myra soon finds herself trapped by her celebrity. She decides Read More
Actors: Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin, Rellys, Henri Poupon, Robert Vattier
Synopsis: French novelist-turned-film director Marcel Pagnol made this black and white feature in 1953, He later wrote a novel based on his original script, which in turn was the source material for two much better known films made by director Claude Berri in 1986 - - Jean de Florette and Berri's own Read More
Actors: Sylvia Bataille, Gabriel, Jane Marken [Jeanne]
Synopsis: The Ways of Love grew from an unfinished film: Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, of which 46 minutes had been completed before funds ran out. In this French/Italian compendium, Country is combined with Marcel Pagnol's 1933 short subject Jofroi and Roberto Rosselini's 1948 character study The Miracle Read More
Actors: Bernard Blier, Edouard Delmont, Juliette Faber
Synopsis: L'Ecole Buissoniere could be described as a small-scale Gallic version of Goodbye Mr. Chips. Bernard Blier stars as Pascal, a head-in-the-clouds teacher forced to come down to earth when he is assigned a woebegone rural school. Hoping to stimulate his students, Pascal digresses from the Read More
Actors: Anna Magnani
Synopsis: Both controversial and compelling, this is the story of a naive peasant girl who becomes pregnant after being seduced by a shepherd and believes that she is carrying a specially blessed child. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
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
Actors: Fernandel, Jacqueline Bouvier, Raymond Pellegrin, Henri Poupon, Arius
Synopsis: Marcel Pagnol adapted the screenplay of Nais from a novel by Emile Zola. The usually mirth-provoking Fernandel plays it relatively straight as a hunchbacked itinerant worker. He loves Jacqueline Pagnol from afar, but is prevented by his handicap from expressing his ardor. Thus he vicariously Read More
Actors: Micheline Francey, Fernandel, Henri Vilbert, Henri Poupon
Actors: Milly Mathis, Fernandel, Edouard Delmont
Actors: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Fernand Ledoux, Michèle Morgan
Synopsis: Originally filmed and released in 1941 as Remorques, this heavy-breathing French melodrama was distributed stateside in 1946 as Stormy Waters. The film was a typical Jean Gabin vehicle, replete with two-fisted action, star-crossed romance and intense emotional turbulence. Gabin plays Laurent, a Read More
Actors: Fernandel, Orane Demazis, Robert Vattier, Fernand Charpin
Synopsis: Le Schpountz (Heartbeat) stars Fernandel as a feckless country boy named Saturnin. Convinced that he's a great lover (if only he could find someone to love), Saturnin is derisively labelled a "schpountz" by his friends and neighbors. He eventually proves that he's got a lot more compassion than Read More
Actors: Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Orane Demazis, Marguerite Moreno, Gabriel Gabrio
Synopsis: Originally Regain, this Marcel Pagnol masterwork was distributed in the US in 1939, two years after its completion; the hold-up was due to complaints from the New York censors, who disapproved of the plotline's harmlessly adulterous undertones. Told in a simple, straightforward fashion, the film Read More
Actors: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, René Lefèvre, Marguerite Deval
Synopsis: The English-language title of this French slice-of-life drama is Lady Killer, an apt description of anti-hero Lucien (Jean Gabin). A colonial cavalry officer, Lucien gives his love to whomever he fancies, then forgets about them as he moves from post to post. The one he can't forget is Madeline (Mireille Balin Read More
Actors: Henri Poupon, Thommeray
Synopsis: Merlusse, one of French writer/director Marcel Pagnol's two 1935 offerings, was released in the U.S. three years later in 1938. Henri Poupon plays the title character, an unpopular and incredibly homely boy's school teacher. Forever targeted for practical jokes for his hideous appearance and Read More
Actors: Henri Poupon, Alida Rouffe
Actors: Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Edouard Delmont, Henri Poupon, Andrex
Synopsis: French writer/director Marcel Pagnol didn't do much editing when he transferred Jean Glono's excessively long novel Angele to film. Orane Demaziz plays the title role, an innocent country girl who becomes a Parisian streetwalker thanks to a smooth-talking pimp. Angele's father fetches her back to Read More
Actors: Henri Poupon, Vincent Scotto, Charles Blavette
Actors: Leon Belieres, Rosine Derean, Claude Dauphin, Henri Poupon
Synopsis: Befitting its title, which translates as To the Polls, Citizens, this comedy was timed for release during the French political elections of 1932. The plot revolves around the efforts by a wealthy industrialist (Leon Belieres) to win a seat in Parliament. His campaign trail is followed by hotshot Read More
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