Jean PascalFilmography

The Golden Salamander

Synopsis: A Victor Canning novel was the starting point for the British adventure flick The Golden Salamander. Archaeologist Trevor Howard combs the ruins of Tunisia in hopes of finding lost treasures. Instead he is confronted by a band of gunrunners, and before long is involved in an effort to topple a Read More

The Poppy Is Also a Flower

Actors: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Georges Géret

Synopsis: This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original story was written by Ian Fleming who died shortly before he was to pen the screenplay. The story is set in Iran and opens as an American undercover agent is murdered in the Read More

Le Faux Pas

Actors: Dominique Paturel, Jean Pascal, Yori Bertin

La Salamandre D'Or

Actors: Jean Pascal, Madeleine Robinson, Valerie Lagrange, Scilla Gabel

Le Rendez-Vous

Actors: Annie Girardot, Odile Versois, Andréa Parisy, Jean Pascal, George Sanders

Synopsis: Upper-crust intrigue, murder, and passions are mixed together in this routine, slow-paced murder mystery by Jean Delannoy. A wily photographer has been murdered, and there are several suspects. The victim was a blackmailer, and his target was a wealthy family headed by the rich and ruthless J.K. (George Sanders Read More

Guinguette

Actors: Zizi Jeanmaire, Jean Pascal, Cristina Gajoni, Paul Meurisse

Synopsis: In this standard tale of a gold-hearted prostitute and her difficulties, Zizi Jeanmaire plays Guinguette, the former lady of the evening who has abandoned her profession for a better life. She finally has the means to open up a bar and dancehall away from the city but just when everything seems to Read More

Les Arrivistes

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Jean Pascal, Clara Gansard

Synopsis: Set during the French restoration in the 1830s, this conventional, verbose costume drama features Jean-Claude Pascal as Philippe, a young officer under Napoleon Bonaparte whose career during the Restoration is anything but smooth. He has an ill-advised romance with the wrong woman that prods his Read More

Premeditation

Actors: Jean Pascal, Pascale Roberts, Jacques Dufilho, Jean Desailly

Pecheur D'Islande

Actors: Charles Vanel, Jean Pascal, Juliette Mayniel, Georges Poujouly

Synopsis: This slow-paced, routine drama is a remake of a 1933 version by director Pierre Guerlais, based on a novel by Pierre Loti. The setting is a fishing village along the coast of Iceland and the action focuses on Yan Gaos (Jean-Claude Pascal). He is part of the fishing crew under his boss Mevel (Charles Vanel Read More

Le Fric

Actors: Jean Pascal, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Raymond Rouleau, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: This routine story by director Maurice Cloche is about two gangs at war over the possession of a valuable cache of crude diamonds. As the gangs battle it out with each other, a young man is drawn into the conflict by his girlfriend, an aggressive sort of woman in her own way. Before the basically Read More

Les Lavandieres Du Portugal

Actors: Jean Pascal, Anne Vernon, Paquita Rico, Darry Cowl

La Chatelaine Du Liban

Actors: Jean Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Jean Servais, Juliette Greco

Synopsis: La Chatelaine du Liban has all the earmarks of an American western, and never mind that it is set in the Arabian desert. Jean Servais and Omar Sharif head the cast of this yarn about two engineers in search for a rich uranium deposit. Before long, the heroes are besieged with claim jumpers Read More

Le Salaire Du Péché

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Pascal, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Debucourt

Milord L'Arsouille

Actors: Jean Pascal, Simone Bach, Lucienne Legrand

Synopsis: Milord L'Arsouville is set in the watershed year of 1848. The title character, played by Jean-Claude Pascal, is a parasitical nobleman who slowly but surely develops a social consciousness. By the time of the European Revolution of '48, L'Arsouville is a tireless fighter on behalf of citizens' Read More

Le Fils de Caroline Cherie

Actors: Jean Pascal, Jacques Dacqmine, Georges Descrieres, Sophie Desmarets, Brigitte Bardot, Magali Noël

Synopsis: Le Fils de Caroline Cherie is the third in a series of bodice-ripping Gallic romantic adventures. Replacing Martine Carol as 19th century heroine Caroline is Micheline Grey, who is out of the picture early on as her son Juan Jean-Claude Pascal picks up the plotline. Like his mother, Juan cuts Read More

Les Mauvaises Rencontres

Actors: Jean Pascal, Anouk Aimée, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Lemaire, Yves Robert

Synopsis: Anouk Aimee stars as a young woman of humble means who maneuvers her way into the uppermost rungs of French society. How she does it, and the price she has to pay along the way, is unfolded through a series of flashbacks. Since Anouk is recalling her life while in the offices of an abortionist Read More

Le Grand Jeu

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love. It turns out that she is an amnesiac. With her, the attorney tries to re-spark his old relationship. Read More

La Rage Au Corps

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Raymond Pellegrin, Philippe Lemaire

Synopsis: La Rage au Corps (Tempest in the Flesh) stars Francoise Arnoul as Clara, a woman with quite a past and a questionable future. Employed as a lunchroom worker by a Parisian construction company, Clara is rescued from a potentially fatal on-the-job accident by a handsome laborer. She expresses her Read More

Alerte au sud

Actors: Jean Pascal, Gianna Maria Canale, Peter Van Eyck, Lia Amanda

Synopsis: Though his services as a director were no longer required in the 1950s, Erich Von Stroheim kept busy as an actor, especially in the French film industry. Alerte au Sud (Alert in the South) top-bills Von Stroheim as a demented German general who refuses to concede that WW II is over and who Read More

Les Enfants De L'Amour

Actors: Jean Pascal, Lise Bourdin, Dominique Page, Joelle Bernard

Synopsis: After several years in the Italian film industry, director Leonide Moguy returned to France for Les Enfants de L'Amour (The Children of Love). The film is set in a dormitory for teenaged mothers, both unwed and deserted. No one personal story is given precedent over any of the others, though the Read More

Deux Crimes D'Amour

Actors: Odile Versois, Alain Cuny, Marie Sabouret, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: Deux Crimes d'Amour (Two Love Crimes) is comprised of two separate, but thematically linked, short films. "Mina de Vangel," directed by Maurice Clavel and Maurice Barry, is based on a novelette by Stendhal (The Red and the Black), wherein a starry-eyed German lass (Odile Versois), betrayed by a Read More

Un Caprice de Caroline Cherie

Actors: Martine Carol, Jean Pascal, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean Tissier

Synopsis: Martine Carol, the star of the popular period romp Caroline Cherie, once more dons low-cut 18th-century gowns for the 1953 sequel Un Caprice de Caroline Cherie. This time, the toothsome Caroline arrives in Italy with her military officer husband Salange (Jacques Dacquimine). When the country is Read More

La Foret De L'Adieu

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Jean Pascal

Synopsis: Jean-Pierre (Jean-Pierre Pascal) is the foreman of the lumber empire managed by a powerful family. The family's daughter Christine (Francoise Arnoul), sent to England as punishment for an indiscretion, returns to their forest home. It is a foregone conclusion that Jean-Pierre and Christine will Read More

Le Plus Heureux Des Hommes

Actors: Fernand Gravey, Maria Mauban, Jean Pascal

Synopsis: European film favorite Fernand Gravey not only starred in Le Plus Heurs des Hommes, but also co-adapted the script from Jean Guitton's play. The title translates to The Happiest of Men, which hardly describes Gravey's character, an innocent bystander named Pierre. Walking into a bookshop, Pierre Read More

Un Grand Patron

Actors: Pierre Fresnay, Renee Devillers, Roland Alexandre, Jean Pascal

Synopsis: Originally titled Un Grande Campon, The Perfectionist is a tailor-made vehicle for Pierre Fresnay. The star plays a brilliant and celebrated surgeon, on the verge of achieving his life's goal: a membership in the Academy of Medicine. Unfortunately, the surgeon's medical accomplishments are Read More

Le Rideau Cramoisi

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Jean Pascal, Jim Gérald

Le Jugement De Dieu

Actors: Pierre Renoir, Andree Debar, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Pascal