Jean GabinFilmography

Verdict

Actors: Jean Gabin, Sophia Loren, Michel Albertini, Muriel Catala

Synopsis: In Jury of One, French filmmaker Andre Cayatte once more probes into the intricacies of the Gallic justice system. Sophia Loren plays the widow of a man reputed to be a gangster. When Loren's son Michel Albertini is accused of murder, his father's reputation practically assures a guilty verdict. Read More

Deux Hommes Dans La Ville

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: In this French psychological drama, a bank robber is finally released after serving 10 years. His being paroled is due to the influence of his old friend, a social worker. The ex-convict returns to his wife and begins living an honest life. Unfortunately, his old crook friends begin trying to lure Read More

L'Affaire Dominici

Actors: Jean Gabin, Paul Crauchet, Gérard Depardieu, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: In 1950s France, an old peasant patriarch was tried for the murder of a family of British campers. At the time, the case was a cause célèbre all over France. This movie made the old case famous all over again. At the time of his capture, Dominici (Jean Gabin) was adamant that he committed the Read More

Le Tueur

Actors: Jean Gabin, Fabio Testi, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In this French police thriller, Le Guen (Jean Gabin) is an old-style police inspector, near retirement. When Gassot (Fabio Testi) escapes from the mental institute for the criminally insane, Le Guen is the best man to track him down. After all, he put him away years before. Gassot leaves behind a Read More

Le Chat

Actors: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Paul Bonifas

Synopsis: A Georges Simenon novel was the basis for the French Le Chat. Not much happens in the way of plot, nor are many words of dialogue spoken; the character relationships (or lack of same) are the focal point here. Jean Gabin and Simone Signoret, long married, plainly despise one another. Rather than Read More

Le Drapeau Noir Flotte sur la Marmite

Actors: Jean Gabin

Synopsis: This is one of the few films directed by the well-known French dialogue writer Michel Audiard who was best known for his comic wit. This film is distinctive, however, for its sweetness. Victor (Jean Gabin) an old man, is a grocer and an obnoxious boss. He has always told his family tales of sea Read More

La Horse

Actors: Jean Gabin, Elenore Hirt, André Weber, Christian Barbier, Pierre Dux, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: A grandfather (Jean Gabin) kills a gangster who comes looking for his grandson at the family farm. The boy was involved in hiding heroin for the mob, but the grandfather finds the dope before the gang can retrieve it. He buries the dead goon in the back yard and drives his car into the stream. Read More

Le Clan des Siciliens

Actors: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Danielle Volle, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Amedeo Nazzari

Synopsis: Roger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese (Jean Gabin). They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's American friend Tony Nicosia Read More

Le Tatoué

Actors: Louis de Funès, Jean Gabin, Jo Warfield, Pierre Tornade, Dominique Davray

Synopsis: This engaging comedy concerns the tattoo on the back of a military nobleman and the wily art dealer who covets the work of art. The Count (Jean Gabin) has a Modigliani tattoo, and when Mazeray (Louis De Funes) sees it, he wishes to add it to his art collection. The Count only wishes to retire to a Read More

Le Pacha

Actors: Jean Gabin, Dany Carrel, André Pousse, Serge Gainsbourg, Felix Marten, Jean Gaven

Synopsis: This violent crime drama finds police chief Joss (Jean Gabin) on the trail of a murderous mob boss. When the mob talks Joss' friend into turning to a life of crime, the maniacal mastermind kills the friend, along with the other robbery participants. Joss swears revenge and beats the crooks to the Read More

Sous le Signe du Taureau

Actors: Jean Gabin, Suzanne Flon, Colette Dereal, Raymond Gerome, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: This is an updated version of the Alexander Dumas classic. Edmond Dantes (Paul Barge) is framed and imprisoned for collaboration with the enemy during World War II. When he escapes from jail he travels to South America where rumors of his death are soon taken to be fact. He discovers a treasure Read More

Le Soleil des Voyous

Actors: Jean Gabin, Robert Stack, Suzanne Flon, Margaret Lee, Jean Topart

Synopsis: Originally titled Le Soleil des Voyous, Action Man teams two veteran international film stars: France's Jean Gabin and America's Robert Stack. Gabin plays an ex-criminal, now reformed and ensconsed in a respectable executive job. Stack plays an unreconstituted crook who wants to inveigle Gabin Read More

Du Rififi à Paname

Actors: Jean Gabin, George Raft, Nadja Tiller, Mireille Darc, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two middle-aged gangsters attempt to run an international smuggling ring and begin looking for new people to sneak their illicit gold across Europe. They take on a jobless journalist to assist, not realizing he is really a US government agent who is looking to see if the two Read More

Le Tonnerre de Dieu

Actors: Jean Gabin, Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein, Lilli Palmer, Georges Géret

Synopsis: Brassac (Jean Gabin) is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone (Michele Mercier), Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who Read More

Le Jardinier d'Argenteuil

Actors: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Vernier

Synopsis: Martin (Jean Gabin) is a venerable gardener who passes counterfeit currency to make ends meet in this situation comedy. When a tax bill puts him further in debt, his nephew convinces him to pass bigger bills to pay off the taxes and live the good life. Soon the nephew and his girlfriend buy a Read More

Monsieur

Actors: Jean Gabin, Liselotte Pulver, Mireille Darc, Philippe Noiret, Berthe Grandval

Synopsis: Left a young widower, banker Monsieur (Jean Gabin) discovers that his late wife was having an affair before her death. About to end his life after the news, he is rescued from his misery by a prostitute who was once his maid. Deciding to make a change in his life, he abandons his old one and Read More

L'Age Ingrat

Actors: Fernandel, Jean Gabin, Marie Dubois

Synopsis: 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 in this family comedy drama. Adelphe (Fernandel) tries to ease the visitors from Paris into the more laid-back life of the South. The two future fathers-in-law slowly becomes Read More

Maigret Voit Rouge

Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Vittorio Sanipoli, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: Maigret (Jean Gabin) is the detective who investigates a murder conspiracy. Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. Maigret deals with the FBI and a series of shady underworld figures to save the life of Read More

Any Number Can Win

Actors: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Viviane Romance, Maurice Biraud, Carla Marlier

Synopsis: Jean Gabin plays Charles, an aging gangster, newly released from prison. In fine Bogart tradition, the unrepentant Charles immediately sets to work planning a major casino heist in Cannes. His go-between for this endeavor is a chorus girl, whom Charles's associate Francis (Alain Delon) beds in Read More

Le Gentleman d'Epsom

Actors: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Robinson, Frank Villard, Paul Frankeur, Jean Lefebvre

Synopsis: Three screenwriters pooled their talents for the French racetrack drama Duke of the Derby. Jean Gabin plays a handicapper who's been living high on the hog (or horse) for years. While playing the ponies at Britain's Epson Downs, Gabin finally outsmarts himself. The rest of the story concerns his Read More

Un Singe En Hiver

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Suzanne Flon, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: Latent forces for a strong individualism are pitted against the need to honor deeply held commitments in this effective comedy by Henri Verneuil. Jean Gabin and Jean-Paul Belmondo star as Albert and Gabriel, respectively. Albert is an inn owner who vowed never to drink again if he and his wife Read More

Le Cave Se Rebiffe

Actors: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Bernard Blier, Frank Villard, Maurice Biraud

Synopsis: This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against three others as they work on a counterfeiting operation. Le Dabe has just been cooling his heels in the hot tropics and has now resurfaced in France where he hooks up with the Read More

Le President

Actors: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Renée Faure, Louis Seigner, Alfred Adam, Henri Cremieux

Synopsis: Jean Gabin carries this conventional political drama set in pre-World War II France. He is Emile, a retired politico with a long memory, a curmudgeon who is not yet prepared to stand on the sidelines and watch others wield power. Flashbacks fill in the details about his earlier career -- and why Read More

Night Affair

Synopsis: A police inspector on the trail of the murderer of a nightclub owner falls for the dead man's drug-addicted mistress. He tries to get her to talk, but the commissioner suspects her and wants the case solved, so he orders her arrested. She disappears, and the inspector is led to the home of the Read More

Les Vieux de la Vieille

Actors: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Noël-Noël, Mona Goya, Yvette Etievant

Synopsis: The original "grumpy old men," Jean-Marie (Jean Gabin), Baptiste (Pierre Fresnay), and Blaise (Noel-Noel) raise havoc in this entertaining comedy by director Gilles Grangier. The trio of irritable, temperamental grouchy men abandon their village to go take up residence in a senior citizens' home. Read More

Le Baron de l'Ecluse

Actors: Jean Gabin, Micheline Presle, Blanchette Brunoy, Jean Desailly

Synopsis: This is another standard romantic drama geared toward the talents of popular French actor Jean Gabin who plays the lead, a Baron bereft of everything except his title, his inventive mind, and his ability to charm women. The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover Read More

Rue des Prairies

Actors: Jean Gabin, Claude Brasseur, Roger Dumas, Marie-José Nat

Synopsis: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk Read More

Maigret et l'affaire Saint-Fiacre

Actors: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Michel Vitold, Dr. Robert Hirsch

Synopsis: Jean Gabin once again stars as that other famous French detective Inspector Maigret in this murder mystery that is less a mystery than it is a psychological exercise. When the apparently slow but actually clear-headed Maigret returns to the small town where he grew up, he is called upon to help Read More

Archimede, le Clochard

Actors: Jean Gabin, Darry Cowl, Bernard Blier, Julien Carette, Noël Roquevert, Dora Doll

Synopsis: In this drama, a Parisian vagabond decides to get himself arrested so he can spend the winter in a warm, cozy jail. Unfortunately his attempts fail until his pal shows him how to steal purebred dogs and then bring them back for a reward. He does well, and decides to winter in the Riviera, but Read More

Speaking of Murder

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the exploits of two criminal brothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

En Cas de Malheur

Actors: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Bardot, Edwige Feuillère, Franco Interlenghi, Nicole Berger

Synopsis: En Cas de Malheur, literally "in case of accident," is better known by its American title, Love is My Profession. By any name, this Brigitte Bardot vehicle ran into stiff opposition from the Catholic Legion of Decency, severely limiting its U.S. distribution. Bardot plays a nubile small-time thief Read More

Les Misérables

Actors: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Danièle Delorme, Gianni Esposito

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it's hard to tell one version from another. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleagured Jean Valjean. Arrested for a petty crime Read More

Maigret Tend un Piege

Actors: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly, Oliver Hussenot, Lucienne Bogaert, Jeanne Boitel

Synopsis: The French-made Inspector Maigret offers one of the best-ever Maigrets in the form of veteran tough guy Jean Gabin, who played the character three times throughout the 1950s. In Maigret Sets a Trap, the inspector tackles the case of a psychopathic serial killer. The female victims have all been Read More

Crime et Châtiment

Actors: Jean Gabin, Marina Vlady, Robert Hossein, Ulla Jacobsson, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Crime and Punishment is Dostoyevsky's story about the Nietzchean student Raskolnikov, played in this 1958 French film version by Bernard Bleier. Raskolnikov believes himself above such bourgeois concepts as morality and conscience, which leads to his murder of a hateful old woman. A perceptive Read More

Le Desordre Et La Nuit

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Director Giles Grangier adapted the screenplay of Les Desordre et la Nuit from his own novel. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police. Vallois takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Read More

Les Grandes Familles

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jean Desailly, Annie Ducaux, Françoise Christophe

Synopsis: Jean Gabin stars as Noel, patriarch of a large and wealthy family of industrialists. Noel sees no reason not to run his home in the same ruthless, coldhearted manner in which he runs his business. "Black sheep" Lucien (Pierre Brasseur), however, sees Noel for the pompous fraud that he is. And it Read More

Le Rouge Est Mis

Actors: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Lino Ventura, Marcel Bozzuffi

Synopsis: Its title notwithstanding, Le Rouge est Mis (The Red Light is On) is not a drama about prostitution. Instead, the story concentrates on the humdrum, workaday world of the professional criminal. Jean Gabin plays garage-owner Louis, whose establishment is a front for a robbery gang. Louis and his Read More

Voici le Temps des Assassins

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Gérard Blain, Lucienne Bogaert, Robert Arnoux

Synopsis: Jean Gabin stars in Voici le Temps des Assassins as Chatelin, a soft-spoken, middle-aged restauranteur. His life is unexpectedly complicated when Catherine (Daniele Delorme), the daughter of his ex-wife, pays a visit. Catherine tells Chatelin that her mother is dead, and that she's all alone in Read More

La Traversée de Paris

Actors: Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Louis de Funès, Jeanette Batti, Anouk Ferjac

Synopsis: The French/Italian Four Bags Full stars Jean Gabin as an aging artist, ever on the prowl for excitement. The time is World War II, and the place is occupied France. Timorous cab driver Gabin finagles Bourvil into transporting four suitcases full of precious pork through Paris, under the noses of Read More

Le Sang A La Tete

Actors: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur, Claude Sylvain, Georgette Anys

Synopsis: The Georges Simenon novel Le Fils Cardinaud was the basis of La Sang a la Tete. Jean Gabin plays a middle-aged businessman, saddled with a restless young wife. When he loses his spouse to a handsome young juvenile delinquent, Gabin cannot control his envy and hatred. These negative emotions spread Read More

Le Cas du Docteur Laurent

Actors: Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel, Silvia Monfort, Michel Barbey, Orane Demazis

Synopsis: Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel Read More

Chiens Perdus Sans Collier

Actors: Jean Gabin, Anne Doat, Serge Lecointe

Synopsis: Chiens Perdus sans Collier (Lost Dogs without Collars) is a small-scale venture from director Jean Delannoy, who at the time was more closely associated with more elaborate efforts. Like many American films of the period, Delannoy's picture deals with the ever-growing problem of juvenile 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

Gas-Oil

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Ginette Leclerc, Henri Cremieux

Razzia Sur la Chnouf

Actors: Jean Gabin, Marcel Dalio, Magali Noël, Lino Ventura, Albert Remy

Synopsis: Raid on the Drug Ring is the English-language title of this Jean Gabin vehicle. The venerable French leading man plays the curiously sympathetic head of an international narcotics ring, invited from across the Atlantic to oversee the European branch of his operation. Using a fancy restaurant as a Read More

Des Gens Sans Importance

Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Pierre Mondy, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: Director Henri Verneuil co-adapted Des Gens Sans Importance from a novel by Serge Groussard. The title translates to People of No Importance, an all-too-apt description for the film's cast of characters. Jean Gabin plays an aging, world-weary truckdriver who falls in love with restaurant Read More

French Cancan

Actors: Jean Gabin, Maria Felix, Françoise Arnoul, Gaston Modot, Gianni Esposito

Synopsis: Beautifully photographed, this comedy drama from Jean Renoir chronicles the revival of Paris' most notorious dance as it tells the story of a theater producer who turns a humble washerwoman into a star at the Moulin Rouge. The film is also title Only the French Can. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

Actors: Jean Gabin, René Dary, Paul Frankeur, Lino Ventura, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll

Synopsis: This strangely-christened French film noir was released in the U.S. as Grisbi. Jean Gabin stars as a racketeer known by the Runyonesque nickname of Max the Liar. Seeking out the finer things in life, Max intends to pull one last job and retire. After stealing a fortune in gold, our "hero" is faced Read More

Le Port Du Desir

Actors: Jean Gabin, Andree Debar, Henri Vidal

Synopsis: Jean Gabin stars in the offbeat mood piece Le Port de Desir (Port of Desire). Gabin plays an elderly deep-sea diver, who, while going about his underwater business, discovers the corpse of a young woman. It turns out that the body has been entombed by the unhinged leader of a criminal gang. Gabin Read More

L'Air de Paris

Actors: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Le Saffre, Jean Parédès

Synopsis: Though filmmaker Marcel Carne was no longer considered a trendsetter in the French cinema in the 1950s, his films still turned a profit and pleased the crowd. Heading the cast of Carne's L'Air de Paris is Jean Gabin, the star of the director's earlier Daybreak and other films. Gabin plays Victor Read More

Leur Derniere Nuit

Actors: Jean Gabin, Madeleine Robinson

Synopsis: Leur Dernier Nuit (Their Last Night) is buoyed by the performances by stars Jean Gabin and Madeleine Robinson. Gabin plays Pierre, a seemingly mild-mannered librarian who is actually the head of a gang of thieves. Schoolteacher Madeleine (Madeleine Robinson), Pierre's boarding-house neighbor Read More

La Vierge Du Rhin

Actors: Jean Gabin, Nadia Gray, Elina Labourdette, Andrée Clement, Oliver Hussenot

Synopsis: La Vierge du Rhin translates to Rhine Virgin, a title that would have had trouble getting by the hidebound American censors of 1953. The title refers not to a woman, but to a river barge, which tools up and down the Rhone throughout the film. Ex-POW Jacques (Jean Gabin), bitter and disillusioned 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

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

La Nuit Est Mon Royaume

Actors: Jean Gabin, Simone Valere, Suzanne Dehelly, Robert Arnoux

Synopsis: The English-language title of this curious French drama is The Night is My Kingdom. Considered one of the best offerings from the highly variable director Georges Lacombe, the film stars Jean Gabin as Raymond, whose career as a railroad engineer is cut short when he is blinded in an accident. Read More

La Verite Sur Bebe Donge

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, Gabrielle Dorziat, Claude Genia

Synopsis: La Verite sur Bebe Donge is another "socko" pure-entertainment vehicle from prolific French filmmaker Henri Decoin. The film stars Decoin's former wife Danielle Darrieux as the title character Bebe Donge, the wife of industrialist Francois Donge (Jean Gabin). Concerned only with surface values Read More

Victor

Actors: Jean Gabin, Françoise Christophe, Jacques Castelot, Brigitte Auber

Synopsis: Victor was adapted from the popular stage play by Henri Bernstein. The title character, played by Jean Gabin, is a good-hearted soul who is willing to sacrifice his own well-being for the sake of others. Smitten by Francoise (Francoise Christophe), the wife of his friend Marc (Jacques Castelot) Read More

E Più Facile Che Un Camello

Actors: Jean Gabin, Elena Altieri, Julien Carette, Antonella Lualdi

Synopsis: Two masters of Italian neorealism--screenwriter Cesare Zavattini and director Luigi Zampa--collaborated on It is Easier for a Camel. As indicated by the film's title, a measure of religiosity figures into the proceedings. Recently deceased Carlo Bacchi (Jean Gabin), on the verge of being sent to Read More

La Marie Du Port

Actors: Blanchette Brunoy, Nicole Courcel, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Claude Romain

Synopsis: Recovering from his disastrous experience with the never-completed La Fleur de L'Age, French filmmaker Marcel Carne proved he hadn't lost his touch with La Marie du Port. Played by Nicole Courcel, the eponymous Marie is the younger sister of Odile (Blanchette Burnoy). Odile in turn is the mistress Read More

Au-Dela Des Grilles

Actors: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: French filmmaker Rene Clement's international reputation was secured with Au Dela des Grilles. A French-Italian production, the film sagaciously teamed the most popular stars of each nation: France's Jean Gabin and Italy's Isa Miranda. Gabin is cast as a murderer who escapes prosecution by stowing Read More

Miroir

Actors: Jean Gabin, Martine Carol, Gabrielle Dorziat

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

The Impostor

Actors: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: The Impostor is one of French film favorite Jean Gabin's two wartime Hollywood vehicles. Adapted by Stephen Longstreet and Marc Connelly from a screenplay by director Julien Duvivier, the story concerns a condemned murderer named Clement (Jean Gabin), who is "liberated" when the Nazis bomb the Read More

Strange Confession

Actors: Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: Strange Confession was the fourth in Universal's "Inner Sanctum" B-picture series, all of which starred Lon Chaney Jr. Chaney plays an idealistic writer who allows himself to be used by a politically ambitious publishing mogul (J. Carroll Naish). Not only does the publisher distort the Read More

Moontide

Actors: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan

Synopsis: Forced to flee Paris during the Occupation, the great French leading man Jean Gabin starred in a brace of Hollywood films, the best of which was the first, 20th Century-Fox's Moontide. Cast to type, Gabin plays Bobo, a brooding itinerant dock-worker who gets mixed up in a drunken brawl. Upon Read More

Remorques

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

Le Jour Se Lève

Actors: Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, Mady Berry, Jacques Baumer

Synopsis: Marcel Carne and Jacques Prevert's classic of French poetic realism stars Jean Gabin in one of his most famous roles as Francois, a rough, barrel-chested loner who hides out in his apartment awaiting for the police to arrive. Francois has killed a man in a crime of passion, the slimy lothario Read More

La Bête Humaine

Actors: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Julien Carette, Fernand Ledoux, Jean Renoir, Blanchette Brunoy

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Emile Zola, La Bete Humaine weaves a mesmerizing tale of a tragic triangle. Train engineer Jean Gabin lusts after Simone Simon, the wife of his co-worker Fernand Ledoux. When Ledoux is in danger of losing his job, Simon offers herself to her husband's boss. In jealous pique, Ledoux Read More

Port of Shadows

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin. Having deserted the French army, Gabin ducks into a back alley and meets the lovely Michelle Morgan. He becomes her champion by taking on her evil "protectors" (Michel Read More

Le Recif De Corail

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Gina Manès, Jean Gabin, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: This French-German co-production stars Jean Gabin in his standard screen role of a fugitive from justice. Unable to return to his own country, Trott Lennart (Gabin) takes a job with a gun-running operation in Mexico. Even though it is proven that Lennart is innocent of the charges against him, his Read More

Grand Illusion

Actors: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich Von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio, Dita Parlo, Julien Carette

Synopsis: Frequently cited as both one of the greatest films about war and one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion is an often witty, sometimes poignant, frequently moving examination of the futility of war. During World War I, twoFrench airmen are shot down while taking Read More

Pépé le Moko

Actors: Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Line Noro, Lucas Gridoux, Gabriel Gabrio

Synopsis: Pepe le Moko (Jean Gabin) is a well-known criminal mastermind who eludes the French police by hiding in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows he is safe in this labyrinthine netherworld, where he is surrounded by his fellow thieves and cutthroats. Police inspector Slimane (Lucas Gridoux), who Read More

Le Messager

Actors: Gaby Morlay, Jean Gabin, Mona Goya, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Le Messager was the fourth directorial effort for prominent Gallic actor Raymond Rouleau. Adapted from a play by Henry Bernstein, the story comes to life when wealthy Englishwoman Betty Rowe is deserted by her French husband Jean Gabin in favor of his secretary Gaby Morlay. In "hell hath no fury" Read More

Gueule d'amour

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

Les Bas-Fonds

Actors: Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Suzy Prim, Jany Holt, Junie Astor, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Voted 1936's best picture by a circle of prestigious French critics, Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths (Les Bas-Fonds) is based on the "gutter" play by Russian author Maxim Gorky. Louis Jouvet plays The Baron, forced by circumstance to give up his life of luxury and to set up residence in the slums Read More

La Belle Équipe

Actors: Viviane Romance, Charles Vanel, Jean Gabin, Charles Granval, Raymond Aimos

Synopsis: La Belle Equipe (The Good Crew) was the fourth of six smash hits in a row for director Julien Duvivier. The fortunes of five unemployed laborers take a radical turn for the better when they jointly win a 100,000-franc lottery prize. Jean Gabin, the self-appointed leader of the bunch, suggests that Read More

Varietes

Actors: Annabella, Jean Gabin, Fernand Gravey

Synopsis: Varietes started out as a remake of E. A. DuPont's silent German classic Variety. Unfortunately, DuPont himself made his own remake, so writer-director Nicholas Farkas was obliged to whip up a new story. Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin Read More

Golgotha

Actors: Harry Baur, Robert Le Vigan, Edwige Feuillère, Jean Gabin, Charles Granval, Juliette Verneuil, André Bacque

Synopsis: Julien Duvivier's most controversial production to date, 1935's Golgotha is an ambitious and expensive retelling of the Last Days of Jesus. Robert le Vigan plays the Son of God, but as often happens in films of this nature he is upstaged by the villains, Herod (Harry Baur), Pontius Pilate (Jean Gabin Read More

La Bandera

Actors: Jean Gabin, Margo Lion, Annabella, Pierre Renoir, Robert Le Vigan

Synopsis: Less ambitious than his previous Golgotha, Julien Duvivier's La Bandera is nonetheless more entertaining. A Foreign Legion yarn, La Bandera downplays spectacular battle scenes in favor of a romantic triangle. Accused of murder, Pierre (Jean Gabin) joins the Legion, with detective Lucas (Robert Le Vigan Read More

Maria Chapdelaine

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Suzanne Desprès, Jean Gabin, Jean-Pierre Aumont, André Bacque

Synopsis: Also known as The Naked Heart, Maria Chapdelaine beautifully supports and sustains French filmmaker Julien Duvivier's gift for "poetic realism." At base, this is a simple 19th century romantic triangle. Canadian lass Madeline Renaud is adored with equal fervor by aristocratic Jean-Pierre Aumont Read More

Zou Zou

Actors: Josephine Baker, Yvette Lebon, Illa Meery, Jean Gabin, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Zou Zou is one of a handful of French musical films made by the flamboyant African-American entertainer Josephine Baker. The star plays a Creole laundress who becomes an overnight stage success when she subs for a tempestuous diva. She goes on to experience the requisite professional highs and Read More

Adieu les Beaux Jours

Actors: Jean Gabin, Brigitte Helm, Ginette Leclerc, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Andre Beucler directed this German romantic comedy, filmed in two languages and released overseas in French. Brigitte Helm stars as a sophisticated jewel thief who escapes to Spain with an expensive stolen necklace then gets involved with a naive advertising executive (Jean Gabin) who becomes her Read More

Du Haut en Bas

Actors: Janine Crispin, Milly Mathis, Jean Gabin, Mauricet

Synopsis: This comedy of manners, set within a Viennese community, centers upon an uneducated soccer player who ends up being tutored by an unemployed teacher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Tunnel

Actors: Madeleine Renaud, Van Daele, Jean Gabin, Gustaf Gründgens, Edmond van Daele, André Nox

Synopsis: Keeping one step ahead of the Nazis, German director Kurt (Curtis) Bernhardt fled to Paris to film this French-language adaptation of Bernard Kellerman's novel The Tunnel. Jean Gabin heads the cast as two-fisted engineer Mac Allen, whose sole ambition in life is to build a Transatlantic tunnel Read More

L'Etoile De Valencia

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Simone Simon, Jean Gabin, Thomy Bourdelle

La Belle Mariniere

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Rosine Derean

Les Gaietes De L'Escadron

Actors: Mady Berry, Henry Roussell, Fernandel, Raimu, Jean Gabin

Synopsis: Every so often, director Maurice Tourneur recharged his creative batteries with such trifles as Gaietes de L'Escadron. The title translates as Fun in the Barracks -- and yes, it is a military comedy. Based on the popular stage play by Georges Courteline, the story centers upon the relationship Read More

La Foule Hurle

Actors: Hélène Perdrière, Jean Gabin, Frank O'Neill

Synopsis: Made in Germany, La Foule Hurle is the French-language version of the 1932 Warner Bros. actioner The Crowd Roars. The plot remains the same, with a cocky young race-car driver juggling the affections of several women at once. When his kid brother decides to enter the racing game as well, the hero Read More

Coeur de Lilas

Actors: André Luguet, Marcelle Romee, Jean Gabin, Madeleine Guitty, Paul Pauley

Synopsis: Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny Opera, with heroine Lilac (Marcelle Romeo) consorting with the criminal scum of Paris. Lilac falls Read More

Gloria

Actors: Brigitte Helm, Mady Berry, André Luguet, Jean Gabin

Synopsis: Air-mail pilot George Koehler (Gustav Froelich) would like to be more of a daredevil, but his wife Maria (Brigitte Helm) won't let him. George's frustration is multiplied when his best friend Jonny (Fritz Kampers) wins an aviation competition in which Maria refused to allow him to participate. The Read More

Coeurs Joyeux

Actors: Josseline Gael, Gabriel Gabrio, Jean Gabin, Lucien Callamand

Mephisto

Actors: Jean Gabin, René Navarre

Synopsis: Starring Henri Navarre (who also co-directed with Henri Debain), this French chapterplay released in 1931 was the country's first -- and last -- sound serial. Navarre, who had skyrocketed to fame in the groundbreaking serial Fantômas (1914), played Professor Bergman, a clever armchair detective. Read More

Paris-Beguin

Actors: Jean Gabin, Charles Lamy, Jean Max

Synopsis: Paris Beguin finds Parisian cinema star Jean Gabin playing a familiar role, that of the martyred criminal with a golden heart. A burglar by profession, Jean forces his way into an apartment one night. While he's ransacking the joint, the resident unexpectedly returns. It turns out to be a Read More

Pour Un Soir

Actors: Colette Darfeuil, Jean Gabin, Georges Melchior

Tout Ça Ne Vaut Pas L'Amour

Actors: Josseline Gael, Mady Berry, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Gabin

Chacun Sa Chance

Actors: Jean Gabin, Renee Heribel, Jean Sablon, Gaby Basset

Synopsis: This French-language operetta, also known as Each One's Luck, was filmed in Germany. Based on a novel by Hardt Harden, the plot concerns a happy-go-lucky haberdasher (Jean Gabin) who through a series of incredible plot twists finds himself impersonating a millionaire industrialist at a fancy Read More