Marcel DalioFilmography

L'Honorable Societe

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

Une Page D'Amour

Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Sami Frey, Guy Pion

Synopsis: François (Sami Frey), a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is very ordered and secure and perhaps feels a bit claustrophobic. When he observes that a murderer has been declared psychologically incompetent and is to be placed in a mental Read More

Le Paradis Des Riches

Actors: Raymond Bussières, Marcel Dalio, Germaine Delbat, Lucien Hubert

L'Hombre des Chateaux

Actors: Philippe Léotard, Albert Dray, Zoe Chauveau, Marcel Dalio, Stephane Bouy

Synopsis: Three young siblings living on the fringes of society are spurred into action when the sister of the bunch is arrested for shoplifting. In this tragic drama, they have long-cherished the dream of going to Canada to live, and they sell everything they have to get her freed from jail and available Read More

L'Ombre Des Chateaux

Actors: Albert Dray, Marcel Dalio, Zoe Chauveau, Philippe Léotard

L'Aile Ou la Cuisse

Actors: Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac

Synopsis: In this comedy, Louis de Funes is a top restaurant critic, the head of an important French culinary guide. At the beginning of the film, he and his son (Coluche) are at odds, as the son prefers working as a circus clown to studying the fine arts of gastronomy. The two join forces, however, to Read More

La Communion Solennelle

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Claude Bouchery, Myriam Boyer, Yveline Ailhaud, Patrick Fierry

Synopsis: In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After Read More

The Beast

Actors: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elizabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: In this story, a young nobleman with an unusually strong interest in horse-breeding is being prepared to marry the wealthy niece of an American Cardinal. (Noble families which are growing impoverished try to marry off their younger generations to the heirs of wealthy commoners.) When the girl Read More

Le Faux-Cul

Actors: Bernard Blier, Robert Hossein, Sabine Glaser, Michel Peyrelon, Edward Meeks

Synopsis: In this French spy thriller, a policeman with wide-ranging powers to protect an African dictator who is visiting France -- to negotiate a uranium-mining treaty -- reveals an unexpected degree of skillfulness in doing his job when he is challenged by the actions of spies from other countries and Read More

Ursule et Grelu

Actors: Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Roland Dubillard, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: The on-again, off-again relationship between a man and a woman who first meet during a shipwreck (she is a Salvation Army soldier, he is a sailor, both are adrift) is the subject of this French film. The two meet and separate numerous times during the movie, until they are finally able to Read More

The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob

Actors: Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio, Claude Giraud, Henri Guybet

Synopsis: This comedy concentrates on the mishaps befalling bigoted Frenchman Louis DeFunes. While en route to his daughter's wedding, the outspoken DeFunes accidentally gets mixed up in an Arab nationalist uprising. Through a bizarre and nearly indescribable combination of events, the fiercely anti-Semitic DeFunes Read More

Les Yeux Fermes

Actors: Gerard Desarthe, Lorraine Rainer, Jean Carmet, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: The one with the closed eyes, in this French film, would seem to be the rogue actor (Gerard Desarthe) who, out of boredom, decides to pretend that he is blind. His imposture soon puts him in a situation where he must continue it or risk exposure. As he falls, stumbles and bumps into things to keep Read More

Aussi Loin Que l'Amour

Synopsis: In this French romance by documentary director Frederic Rossif, a young woman whose life has lost its savor after she has had an abortion, finds new reason for living as she embarks on a seaside romance with a married, bird-watching professor. The romance flowers in seaside walks and long Read More

Papa, les petits bateaux...

Actors: Sheila White

Synopsis: In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (Sheila White) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove their worth to her. Read More

The Great White Hope

Actors: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Chester Morris

Synopsis: Although the characters' names were changed, The Great White Hope was a thinly veiled account of the trials and tribulations of boxer Jack Johnson, based on the play by Howard Sackler and directed by Martin Ritt. James Earl Jones stars as boxing great Jack Jefferson, who defeats Frank Bardy Larry Pennell Read More

Catch-22

Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing Read More

Justine

Actors: Severn Darden, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Anna Karina, Philippe Noiret, Michael York

Synopsis: Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial minister, Justine works her way up from her beginnings as a hooker, but continues to use her sexual allure as a tool to win her and her husband's ends. Along the way, she Read More

How Sweet It Is!

Actors: James Garner, Debbie Reynolds, Maurice Ronet, Paul Lynde, Marcel Dalio, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Two parents worry about the feelings of their love-struck teenage son in this engaging romantic comedy. Grif (James Garner) and wife Jenny (Debbie Reynolds) are concerned about their son Davey (Donald Losby). When his girlfriend is slated for a tour of Europe, the teenage boy is heartbroken. Grif Read More

La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani, Gregoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Read More

The Oldest Profession

Actors: Michele Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jeanne Moreau, Gabriele Tinti, Raquel Welch, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this anthology, six French filmmakers each contributed a vignette, offering their take on the history of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tender Scoundrel

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Nadja Tiller, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Geneviève Page, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a Read More

How to Steal a Million

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: In this elegant "caper" film, Audrey Hepburn stars as the daughter of a wealthy Parisian (Hugh Griffith), whose hobby is copying famous works of art. His replica of a famed Cellini sculpture is inadvertently displayed in an art museum, and he begins to worry that he'll lose his reputation once the Read More

Made in Paris

Actors: Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Edie Adams, Chad Everett

Synopsis: An American girl finds love and laughter in the City of Lights in this romantic comedy. Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret) works as an assistant to Irene Chase (Edie Adams), a fashion purchaser for a large clothing store. Irene sends Maggie to Paris as her representative for the annual fashion shows of Read More

Lady L

Actors: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven, Claude Dauphin, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While working as a laundress, Lady L falls for the gambler and anarchist Armand (Paul Newman), who gets mixed up with an inept group trying to assassinate the senile Prince Otto (Peter Ustinov Read More

Un Monsieur de Compagnie

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Irina Demick, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Catherine Deneuve, André Luguet, Sandra Milo

Synopsis: Following up 1964's Academy Award nominated L'Homme de Rio, French filmmaker Philippe de Broca wrote and directed this big-screen adaptation of André Couteaux's novel Un monsieur de compagnie. Jean-Pierre Cassel stars as Antoine, a young man who holds the philosophy "Laziness is the mother of all Read More

Le Dix-Septieme Ciel

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie Dubois, Jean Lefebvre, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: Francois Jean Louis Trintigant is a window washer who mistakes the pretty maid Marie Marie Dubois for the wealthy lady of the house in this romantic comedy. He follows her to a castle that is run by her parents as a tourist attraction, but Francois believes she lives there. The two meet and fall Read More

Wild and Wonderful

Actors: Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Larry Storch, Marty Ingels, Jacques Aubuchon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle Monsieur Cognac. The name is most apropos for the little doggy is quite the lush when it comes to booze. This suits the hard-drinking musician just fine and the two Read More

Donovan's Reef

Actors: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Jack Warden, Elizabeth Allen, Dick Foran, Cesar Romero

Synopsis: John Ford's last film to deal with World War II, Donovan's Reef is an alternately comical and sentimental look back on the fighting Navy men from that war, and how and where -- in Ford's eyes, and Frank Nugent and James Edward Grant's script -- they should have ended up. Michael "Guns" Donovan Read More

The List of Adrian Messenger

Actors: George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Clive Brook, Gladys Cooper, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) asks his friend, British colonel Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), to check on the whereabouts of the eleven men named on a written list. Not long afterward, the plane on which Messenger is travelling is deliberately blown up. The mystery killer slipped the bomb Read More

Cartouche

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Rochefort, Odile Versois, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: Jean-Paul Belmondo romps his way through the role of 18th century French bandit chief Cartouche. At first robbing from everyone in sight (he has to -- he's head man of a Parisian crime syndicate) Cartouche is rechanneled into becoming a Gallic Robin Hood by beauteous gypsy Venus (Claudia Read More

Jessica

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Maurice Chevalier, Noël-Noël, Gabriele Ferzetti, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Based on Flora Sandstrom's novel The Midwife of Pont Clery, this lightweight sexual farce involves the effect that Jessica (Angie Dickinson), a voluptuous midwife, has on the small Sicilian town in which she currently resides. Jessica is an American whose intentions may be charitable but whose Read More

Le Petit Garcon De L'Ascenseur

Actors: Mireille Negre, Marcel Dalio, Michel de Re

The Devil at 4 O'clock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a Read More

Classe Tous Risques

Actors: Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: A criminal on the run finds going home after a decade is harder than he expects in this drama from French filmmaker Claude Sautet. Gangster Abel Davos (Lino Ventura) is wanted for murder in France, and has been living underground in Italy for ten years. Since then, Abel has married Therese (Simone Read More

Desert Fighters

Synopsis: The Sahara holds the secret of a lost gold mine located by an engineer who discovers that this is an empty victory. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Can-Can

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse

Synopsis: Cole Porter's Gay Paree musical about the introduction in Montmartre in 1896 of the notorious Can-Can dance, is brought to the screen, filtered through a Rat Pack sensibility. Shirley MacLaine stars as Simone Pistache, the perky and vivacious owner of a Parisian cafe, who, aided by her swingin' Read More

Song without End

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are dubbed with another's singing voice, but this Read More

The Man Who Understood Women

Actors: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with Read More

Maverick: Game of Chance

Synopsis: Never one to turn down a beautiful woman--especially one with a lofty title--Bart (Jack Kelly) lends $10,000 to Countess Michelle de Barot (Roxane Berard), accepting her pearl necklace as security. Unfortunately, the necklace turns out to be just as phony as the Countess. Teaming with his brother Read More

aOne Step Beyond: The Dark Room

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Ann Codee, Paul Dubov, Marcel Dalio, Ivan Triesault

Synopsis: In one of the series' eeriest episodes, American photographer Rita Wallace (Cloris Leachman) sets up shop in Paris, hoping to capture the "soul of France" in her pictures. Advertising for a model, Rita ends up using a strange, reclusive little man (Marcel Dalio) with a haunted look in his eyes. Read More

Pillow Talk

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams

Synopsis: The fabulously successful Pillow Talk was essentially Shop Around the Corner for the 1950s. Playboy composer Rock Hudson and interior-decorator Doris Day are obliged to share a telephone party line. Naturally, their calls overlap at the least opportune times, and just as naturally, this leads to Read More

The Perfect Furlough

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Linda Cristal, Keenan Wynn, Elaine Stritch

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle weary men and convinces the brass to let her try it on selected men stationed at her base. According to her plan, selected men would be given three weeks, tailor made to fit Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Return of the Hero

Synopsis: Wounded in the French-Algerian war, Sgt. Andre Doniere (Jacques Bergerac) heads back to France in the company of his friend Marcel (Marcel Dalio), who lost a leg saving Andre's life. Although Doniere's return is eagerly awaited by his adoring fiancée, Sybil (Lilyan Chauvin), he is consumed by Read More

Lafayette Escadrille

Actors: Tab Hunter, Etchika Choureau, William Wellman, Jr., Jody McCrea, Dennis Devine

Synopsis: Though director William Wellman was attached to the Lafayette Flying Corps during WW1, many people believed that he was actually with the celebrated Lafayette Escadrille, and this 1958 actioner does little to dispel that belief. The film concentrates on a group of courageous young American Read More

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Actors: Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok, Dewey Martin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad Hiltonesque playboy hotelier at large in Rome. Taking charge of his latest acquisition -- a huge hotel with the titular 10,000 bedrooms -- Hunter finds himself being pursued by Read More

The Sun Also Rises

Actors: Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: For its time, The Sun Also Rises was a reasonably frank and faithful adaptation of the 1926 Ernest Hemingway novel. Its main concession to Hollywood formula was the casting of star players who were all too old to convincingly portray Hemingway's "Lost Generation" protagonists. Tyrone Power heads Read More

China Gate

Actors: Gene Barry, Angie Dickinson, Nat "King" Cole, Lee Van Cleef, George Givot, Warren Hsieh, Paul Dubov

Synopsis: Writer-director Samuel Fuller applies his kino-fist to this raw-boned war drama -- one of the first American films to deal with Vietnam. The film concerns the battle between the Vietnamese and the Chinese, through the efforts of a small band of soldiers to locate and destroy a hidden communist Read More

Tip on a Dead Jockey

Actors: Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Gia Scala, Martin Gabel, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: In this 1957 psychological action drama, Robert Taylor plays Lloyd Tredman, a WWII American airman plagued by guilt over the war deaths of comrades in failed missions. Living in Spain, Tredman is despondent after losing all his money betting on a horse which ends up throwing its jockey and killing Read More

Miracle in the Rain

Actors: Jane Wyman, Van Johnson, Eileen Heckart, Fred Clark, Peggie Castle

Synopsis: The fate that brings lovers together can easily tear them apart as can be seen in this sentimental tragedy that centers on an ordinary-looking secretary's (Jane Wyman) lonely life. Other than working and spending some free time with a spinster (Eileen Heckart), who is her best friend, the woman Read More

Jump into Hell

Synopsis: Jump into Hell is one of the first films to deal with the ongoing conflict in Vietnam or, as it was still known in 1955, French IndoChina. The 56-day battle of Dien Ben Phu is herein reenacted, with several French volunteers emerging as the heroes. Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Read More

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

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

Lucky Me

Actors: Doris Day, Robert Cummings, Phil Silvers, Eddie Foy, Jr., Nancy Walker

Synopsis: Lucky Me is a mixed-bag musical from Warner Bros., adhering to a tried-and-true formula that was wearing just a bit thin in 1954. Candy (Doris Day), Hap (Phil Silvers), Duke (Eddie Foy Jr.) and Flo (Nancy Walker) are four small-time performers who find themselves stranded in Miami. Forced to take Read More

Patrouille Des Sables

Actors: Michel Auclair, Marcel Dalio, Emma Penella

Sabrina

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams

Synopsis: Billy Wilder directs the lighthearted romantic comedy Sabrina, based on the play by Samuel A. Taylor. Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the simple, naïve daughter of a chauffeur, Thomas Fairchild (John Williams). They live on an estate with the wealthy Oliver Larrabee (Walter Hampden) and his Read More

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Actors: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat Read More

Flight to Tangier

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Jack Palance, Corinne Calvet, Robert Douglas, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a group of strangers becomes acquainted as they wait for a plane to arrive at an airport in Tangier. Among those awaiting the flight are Susan (Joan Fontaine), an American who is dating the pilot; Gil Walker (Jack Palance), an expatriate who received the Congressional Medal Read More

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Actors: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Hildegarde Neff, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering Read More

The Happy Time

Actors: Charles Boyer, Louis Jourdan, Marsha Hunt, Kurt Kasznar, Linda Christian

Synopsis: The Happy Time was adapted from the long-running Broadway play by Samuel Taylor, which in turn was based on the novel by Robert Fontaine. Set in Quebec during the early part of the 20th century, the film concentrates on the activities of a large French-Canadian family headed by Charles Boyer. Most Read More

Lovely to Look At

Actors: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Red Skelton, Marge Champion, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gower Champion

Synopsis: The reason the 1935 Astaire/Rogers film version of Roberta was unavailable for years was that, in 1952, MGM bought the property and refilmed it under the title Lovely to Look At. Inheriting one-half of a Parisian dress salon from his late aunt, Red Skelton travels to France with his showbiz Read More

The Merry Widow

Actors: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn, Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her husband's native land to dedicate a memorial to him. The king (Thomas Gomez) of the country, deep in debt, tries to convince her to stay by offering a young count (Fernando Lamas Read More

On the Riviera

Actors: Danny Kaye, Gene Tierney, Corinne Calvet, Marcel Dalio, Jean Murat, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: On the Riviera is a remake of 1941's Weekend in Havana, which in turn was a remake of 1934's Folies Bergere. The plot remains the same in all three incarnations: for business purposes, a nightclub entertainer is coerced into posing as his look-alike, a powerful financier/aviator. This time it's Danny Kaye Read More

Nous Irons a Monte Carlo

Actors: Ray Ventura, Max Elloy, Danielle Godet, Henri Genes, Philippe Lemaire, Jeanette Batti, Audrey Hepburn

Synopsis: Nous Irons a Monte Carlo guest-stars the Ray Ventura Band and French comedian Max Elloy (best remembered as the stateless refugee in Laurel and Hardy's Utopia). The thinnish storyline concerns a baby boy left in the care of Ventura's drummer. Unable to care for the child himself, the drummer Read More

Rich, Young and Pretty

Actors: Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey, Vic Damone, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis: Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with her father, Jim Stauton Rogers (Wendell Corey) -- a cattle baron-turned-politician, Elizabeth Rogers (Powell) falls in love with handsome Andre Milan (Vic Damone, in his film Read More

Porte D'Orient

Actors: Yves Vincent, Tilda Thamar, Nathalie Nattier, Marcel Dalio

Jack, el Negro

Synopsis: A French-American cooperative film about drug smuggling on the French Riviera. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Maya

Actors: Viviane Romance, Frehel, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: The beautiful and versatile French film star Viviane Romance was also popular in America, as much for her revealing wardrobe as her acting ability. Filmed in 1947, Romance's Maya earned a U.S. release two years later. Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute Read More

Blackjack

Actors: George Sanders, Patricia Roc, Herbert Marshall, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Alternately titled Captain Black Jack, this Franco-American coproduction stars George Sanders as a sophisticated scoundrel living by his wits on the Riviera. Sanders lets those around him believe that he's a secret agent; actually he's a notorious drug smuggler known as Captain Black Jack. Herbert Marshall Read More

Snowbound

Actors: Robert Newton, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Marcel Dalio, Stanley Holloway

Synopsis: A frequent visitor to the Late Late Show, the Anglo-American Snowbound is set in the frozen Alps. Robert Newton and Dennis Price head an expedition in search of a fortune of gold, stashed away by the Nazis in the last days of the war. Snowed into an old cabin, the men quickly get on one another's Read More

Hans le Marin

Actors: Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lilli Palmer, Roger Blin

Synopsis: The French Hans le Marin secured an American distributor on the strength of its three stars. Jean-Pierre Aumont plays the title character, a Canadian sailor docked in Marseilles. Here he carries on a torrid romance with cabaret owner Dolores (Maria Montez). When he is robbed and left for dead Read More

Les Amants De Verone

Actors: Anouk Aimée, Serge Reggiani, Pierre Brasseur, Louis Salou, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: Per its title, Lovers of Verona is an updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The film was a joint project of those felicitous collaborators, screenwriter Jacques Prevert and director Andre Cayatte. The star-crossed lovers are portrayed by Serge Reggiani and Anouk Aimee, cast Read More

Temptation Harbour

Actors: Margaret Barton, Kathleen Boutall, Marcel Dalio, Leslie Dwyer, Irene Handl

Synopsis: In this British crime drama, an honest railroad signalman finds himself sorely tempted when he witnesses a murder and later finds $20,000 floating in the harbor. The trouble begins when he decides to take the money and leave town with his daughter and a gold digger. The killer is in hot pursuit Read More

Dedee D'Anvers

Actors: Simone Signoret, Marcello Pagliero, Bernard Blier, Jane Marken [Jeanne]

Synopsis: Originally released in France as Dedee D'Anvers in 1948, this tight little melodrama was both directed and co-written by Yves Allegret. The title character, played by Simone Signoret, lives in near-squalor near the docks of Anvers. Her only companions are practitioners in that left-handed form of Read More

Les Maudits

Actors: Michel Auclair, Henri Vidal, Paul Bernard, Anne Campion, Florence Marly

Synopsis: This psychological drama is set aboard a submarine carrying Nazi officials fleeing their country just before the end of World War II. They are trying to get to South America, but along the way they meet with many obstacles including a bout with a destroyer where they are depth-charged. When the Read More

A Bell for Adano

Actors: Luis Alberni, Gene Tierney, John Hodiak, Henry Armetta, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Roman Bohnen

Synopsis: Director Henry King's adaptation of John Hersey's novel is a faithful telling of the story of Major Joppolo (John Hodiak), who is assigned to administrate the Sicilian town of Adano after World War II and attempts to return it to its pre-war tranquility. His initial actions include feeding and Read More

Action in Arabia

Actors: George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert, Gene Lockhart, Robert Armstrong

Synopsis: Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the patriotic thriller Action in Arabia. George Sanders stars as Gordon, an American newspaperman at large in Damascus. When a colleague is murdered, Sanders wants to find out why. Read More

Pin-Up Girl

Actors: Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown, Eugene Pallette

Synopsis: Despite the film's title, Pin-Up Girl offers surprisingly few glimpses of the famed Betty Grable "gams." This lively Technicolor musical casts Gable as Lorrie Jones, secretary at a USO canteen frequented by handsome servicemen. Falling in love with war hero Tommy Dooley (John Harvey), Lorrie Read More

The Conspirators

Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Victor Francen

Synopsis: This Casablanca-esque spy thriller set during WWII centers on the exploits of the notorious "Flying Dutchman," a fugitive resistance leader from Holland who heads for Lisbon where he hooks up with other members of the underground. One of them is a beautiful young woman, and none of the others Read More

Wilson

Actors: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Producer Darryl F. Zanuck had high hopes that Wilson would immortalize him in the manner that Gone With the Wind did for David O. Selznick. The notion of bringing the life story of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, to the big screen was a labor of love for Zanuck, and Read More

To Have and Have Not

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran, Dan Seymour, Hoagy Carmichael

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Harry Morgan, owner-operator of charter boat in wartime Martinique. Morgan's right-hand man is Eddie (Walter Brennan), a garrulous alky whose pet question to anyone and everyone is "Ever get stung by a dead bee?" While in port, Harry is approached by Free French activist Read More

The Desert Song

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Victor Francen, Lynne Overman

Synopsis: The popular operetta by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II enjoyed its second screen adaptation with this film, which added four new songs and updated the story to World War II. Paul Hudson (Dennis Morgan), an American veteran of the Spanish Civil War, makes his living playing piano in a Read More

The Constant Nymph

Actors: Charles Boyer, Joan Fontaine, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre, Brenda Marshall

Synopsis: Warner Bros.' The Constant Nymph was the third filmization of Margaret Dean's 1924 novel; the first two were filmed in Britain in 1928 and 1933 by producer Michael Balcon. The plot was substantially the same in all three versions: A self-centered European musician (Charles Boyer) is idolized by a Read More

The Song of Bernadette

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Charles Bickford, Gladys Cooper, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: The Song of Bernadette is a reverent recounting of the life of St. Bernadette of Lourdes. As a teen-aged peasant girl growing up in the tiny French village of Lourdes in the 19th century, Bernadette (Jennifer Jones) experiences a vision of the Virgin Mary in a nearby grotto. At least, she believes Read More

Paris After Dark

Actors: George Sanders, Philip Dorn, Brenda Marshall, Madeleine Le Beau, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance leader. Sanders' nurse (Brenda Marshall) is likewise a French patriot--less so the nurse's husband (Philip Dorn), who has become disillusioned after two years in a POW Read More

Flesh and Fantasy

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field, Robert Cummings

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier Carnival in Flanders and Tales of Manhattan, director Julien Duvivier's Flesh and Fantasy is a "pormanteau" film, consisting of several short stories. Linking the three tales unfolded herein are clubmen Doakes (Robert Benchley) and Davis (David Hoffman), who carry Read More

Tonight We Raid Calais

Actors: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi, Blanche Yurka

Synopsis: A timely film when first released in 1943, Tonight We Raid Calais survives as an entertaining adventure some fifty years later. John Sutton plays a British intelligence officer, sent into occupied France with a small unit to local a German munitions depot. While travelling under cover of darkness Read More

The Pied Piper

Actors: Monty Woolley, Anne Baxter, Roddy McDowall, Otto Preminger, Peggy Ann Garner, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Monty Woolley plays an irascible Englishman who insists that he dislikes children. While on a vacation in France, the Nazis invade the country. Reluctantly, Woolley agrees to transport several French children into England. As the flight to freedom becomes more treacherous, Woolley grows fonder of Read More

Casablanca

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during Read More

Flight Lieutenant

Actors: Pat O'Brien, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Jonathan Hale, Minor Watson

Synopsis: There are moments in Columbia's Flight Lieutenant that approach "high camp"; indeed, one is hard pressed to remember if any cliché is left unturned. Pat O'Brien plays air pilot Sam O'Doyle, who is professionally disgraced when he survives a crash in which his co-pilot is killed. He tries to get Read More

The Shanghai Gesture

Actors: Gene Tierney, Victor Mature, Ona Munson, Walter Huston, Phyllis Brooks

Synopsis: Josef von Sternberg made his first return to exotic Shanghai since 1932's Shanghai Express in this baroque conflagration, based on a 1925 play by John Colton that required 30 revisions before it was sufficiently sanitized to pass muster with Hays Office censors. The film takes place in the Read More

One Night in Lisbon

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Billie Burke, John Loder

Synopsis: One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in Europe. While transporting American warplanes to the beleagured RAF, Texas flyboy Dwight Houston (Fred MacMurray) is caught in a London air raid. Scurrying to a shelter Read More

Unholy Partners

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Edward Arnold, Laraine Day, Marsha Hunt, William Orr

Synopsis: If Edward G. Robinson thought he'd get away from tough-guy roles by moving from Warners to MGM, he was sorely mistaken. Robinson plays the editor of a 1920s tabloid newspaper, compelled to accept financial aid from a gangster (Edward Arnold). Defying his "unholy partner," Robinson adopts an Read More

La Tempete

Actors: Annie Ducaux, Arletty, Marcel Dalio, Erich Von Stroheim

Synopsis: La Tempete (The Tempest) is based loosely on characters created by Honore de Balzac. In one of the strangest roles of his career, Erich Von Stroheim plays an international criminal whose latest scheme involves the selling of a hair-straightening potion to African Americans. In order to gain the Read More

La Tradition De Minuit

Actors: Viviane Romance, Marcel Dalio, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Montmartre cabaret singer Vivien Romance is one of several people summoned by telephone to a mysterious rendezvous site by an unknown caller. Among Romance's fellow call-ees are antiques dealer Marcel Dalio, insurance agent Pierre Larquey, semi-retarded butcher boy Marcel Peres, and shady Read More

The Rules of the Game

Actors: Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: Now often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir's La Règle du jeu/Rules of the Game was not warmly received on its original release in 1939: audiences at its opening engagements in Paris were openly hostile, responding to the film with shouts of derision, and distributors cut Read More

L'Esclave Blanche

Actors: Viviane Romance, Mila Parély, John Lodge, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: The title and subject matter of L'Esclave Blanche (White Slave) are one in the same. Set in the pre-WWI Ottoman Empire, the film stars Vivian Romance as the newly wed French wife of Ottoman official John Lodge. Subject to the edicts set down by local sultan Marcel Dalio, the fiercely independent Read More

Conflict

Actors: Corinne Luchaire, Annie Ducaux, Raymond Rouleau, Claude Dauphin, Roger Duchesne, Armand Bernard

Synopsis: This disturbing melodrama centers upon the relationship between two sisters. One sister is married, but unable to bear children; her husband, who wants kids, is ready to leave her. The other sister is single and pregnant. The baby's father left her. The married sister talks her sister in to giving Read More

Entree des Artistes

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Janine Darcey, Odette Joyeux

Synopsis: Entree des Artistes details the lives and loves of several artistically-inclined students at the Paris Conservatory. Wealthy Cecilia (Odette Joyeux) and not-so-wealthy Isabelle (Janine Darcey) vie for the affections of wise-guy Francois (Claude Dauphin). Isabelle finally lands Francois, forcing Read More

The Kiss of Fire

Actors: Mireille Balin, Viviane Romance, Tino Rossi, Michel Simon

Synopsis: Naples au Baiser de Feu (The Kiss of Fire) was one of several films made in France by veteran Italian director Augusto Genina. Tito Rossi plays Mario, a Neapolitan cabaret singer who is tired of his life and hopes to settle down into a domestic existence with Assunta (Mirielle Balin) his boss' Read More

La Maison Du Maltais

Actors: Louis Jouvet, Pierre Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Viviane Romance

Synopsis: Pierre Chenal's La Maison du Maltais was released outside of France as House of the Maltese and Sirocco. The film represented the starring debut of Marcel Dalio after several years' faithful supporting-cast service. Dalio plays Matteo, a young Tunisian native who makes his living telling stories Read More

Cargaison Blanche

Actors: Jules Berry, Kaethe von Nagy, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, Suzy Prim

Synopsis: Although the title of this French melodrama translates as White Cargo, it has nothing to do with the steamy stage play of the same name. Instead, its source was Chemin di Rio, a novel by Jean Masson. A very young Jean-Pierre Aumont plays a crusading reporter who investigates a white-slavery ring. 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

Marthe Richard Au Service De La Franc

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Erich Von Stroheim, Jean Galland, Marcel André

Synopsis: Marthe Richard (Edwige Feuillere) has grown up despising the memory of German army officer Von Ludow (Erich von Stroheim), who ordered the execution of Marthe's mother and father. Years later, Marthe offers her services as a secret agent on behalf of France. Dispatched to Spain, she once more Read More

Miarka La Fille A L'Ourse

Actors: Suzanne Desprès, Jose Noguero, Marcel Dalio

Sarati Le Terrible

Actors: Jacqueline Laurent, Harry Baur, Georges Rigaud, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: Sarati le Terrible is the wealthy and callous absentee landlord (Harry Baur) of a cheap Algiers rooming house near a coal mine. With little money of their own, the local coal-haulers have no choice but to accept Sarati's usurious rental rates. As ruthless at home as he is in business, Sarati 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

Abel Gance's Beethoven

Actors: Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jany Holt, Roger Blin, Jean Debucourt

Synopsis: This fascinating biography chronicles the years in which the master composer began to lose his hearing. The director's use of sound to represent Beethoven's affliction is notable. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Les Affaires Publiques

Actors: Jean Wiener, Marcel Dalio

Turandot Princesse De Chine

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Marcel Dalio

Les Quatre Jambes

Actors: Marcel Dalio