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Actors: Nicole Courcel, Paul Meurisse, Louis Velle, Roland Toutain
Actors: Renée Saint-Cyr, Yves Vincent, Roland Toutain, Jean Danet, Guy Decomble, Raymond Cordy
Synopsis: A novel by Pierre Nord was the basis for Captain Ardant. Yves Vincent plays the title character, a two-fisted Foreign Legionnaire. Hoping to save his outpost in Morocco from being overrun by marauding Arabs, Ardant tries to find out who's been running guns to the natives. Not only does this sound Read More
Actors: Erich Von Stroheim, Sessue Hayakawa, Roland Toutain, Louise Carletti
Synopsis: Released in the U.S. in 1950, Mask of Korea has the sort of title that suggests a tie-in with the then-raging Korean Conflict. Not true. The film was actually lensed in France in 1940, under the title Macao l'Enfer de Jeu. Silent-film veterans Erich Von Stroheim and Sessue Hayakawa star as Read More
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
Actors: Roland Toutain
Actors: Louise Carletti, Liliane Bert, Claude Dauphin, Roland Toutain
Actors: Assia Noris, Fernand Gravey, Jean Weber
Actors: Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Murat, Yvonne de Bray, Junie Astor
Synopsis: Eternal Return (L'Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. The Tristan counterpart, Patrice (Jean Marais), falls in love with the modern-day Isolde, named Nathalie. Actually he has fallen for two Nathalies: when Nathalie I (Madeleine Sologne) Read More
Actors: Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jean Tissier, Roland Toutain
Actors: Paulette Dubost, Alida Rouffe, Roland Toutain, Fernand Charpin
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
Actors: Mireille Balin, Louise Carletti, Erich Von Stroheim, Sessue Hayakawa
Actors: Annabella, Victor Francen, Robert Vidalin, Pierre Renoir
Synopsis: In this French war drama, a battleship captain tries to keep an enemy cruiser from sinking his vessel; he then must defend his honor during a court-martial. Much of the tale is told in flashback and centers not only on the battle itself, but also on the young woman who is having an affair with a Read More
Actors: Hélène Perdrière, Colette Regis, Roland Toutain, Jean Mercanton
Actors: Marguerite Pierry, Giselle Preville, Pierre Larquey, Roland Toutain
Actors: Denise Grey, Pierre Larquey, Roland Toutain
Actors: Josseline Gael, Pierre Larquey, Roland Toutain
Actors: Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa, Roland Toutain, Lucienne Lemarchand
Synopsis: This bit of elegant esoterica was Max Ophuls' only directorial effort for 1937. Japanese matinee idol Sessue Hayakawa made a long-overdue return to films as Yaamo, a humble Chinese coolie in love with the beautiful and aristocratic Kohana (Michiko Tanaka). Following her father's suicide, Kohana Read More
Actors: Annabella, Victor Francen, Pierre Renoir
Synopsis: Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship, steaming through dangerous waters during WWI. Among the passengers is heroine Jeanne (Annabella), who was once in love with first-officer D'Artelles Read More
Actors: Victor Francen, Marcelle Chantal, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Roland Toutain
Synopsis: Director Marcel L'Herbier adapted the screenplay for La Porte du Large (Open Door to the Sea) from a novel by Charles Spaak. Victor Francen stars as Captain Vilette, the recently-appointed commander of the Naval officer's school where his son (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is a cadet. The younger Vilette Read More
Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Simone Simon, Catherine Fontenay, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Raymond Rouleau
Synopsis: Released in the U.S. as Happy Days, Les Beaux Jours was Simone Simon's last French vehicle before she launched the Hollywood phase of her career. The story revolves around the lives and loves of a group of attractive young Parisian students. The most attractive, of course, is our girl Simon, who Read More
Actors: Madeleine Guitty, Raymond Cordy, Roland Toutain
Actors: Madeleine Ozeray, Charles Boyer, Pierre Alcover, Roland Toutain
Synopsis: Liliom, Ferenc Molnar's bittersweet fantasy play, was first filmed in Hollywood in 1930, with Charles Farrell as ne'er-do-well carnival barker Liliom and Rose Hobart as his long-suffering wife Julie. While that version is not available for public viewing, the 1935 French-language version directed Read More
Actors: Blanche Montel, Roland Toutain, Michel Simon
Actors: Josette Day, Lyne Clévers, Fernand Gravey, Roland Toutain
Actors: Suzy Vernon, Roland Toutain, Marcel Vibert, Armand Bernard, Viola Barry
Synopsis: Filmed in Berlin, the French-language Le Femme de Mes Reves (My Dream Woman) stars Suzy Vernon as the title character. Impoverished gigolo Fred (Roland Toutain) tries to weasel out of paying his hotel bill by attaching himself to wealthy Eveline First (Vernon). After professing his love for Read More
Actors: Jules Moy, Roland Toutain, Blanche Montel
Synopsis: Hoping to scare wealthy young Roland Toutain into getting married to his longtime fiancee Blanche Montel, a phony fortune-teller is hired to inform Toutain that he is to die very soon. But thanks to a case of mistaken identity, the fortune-teller delivers this message to middle-aged gym instructor Read More
Actors: Leon Belieres, Roland Toutain, Lisette Lanvin, Germaine Aussey
Actors: Lisette Lanvin, Germaine Aussey, Roland Toutain, Leon Belieres
Actors: Betty Stockfeld, Roland Toutain
Actors: Marie Glory, Roland Toutain, André Berley
Actors: Roland Toutain, Huguette Duflos, Leon Belieres, Maxime des Jardins, Marcel Vibert, Van Daele
Synopsis: Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune (Mystery of the Yellow Room) is based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, of Phantom of the Opera fame. Hugette Ex-Duffos plays a scientist's daughter, who is targeted for a murder by an unknown assailant. When the police prove unable to protect the heroine, wisecracking Read More
Actors: Huguette Duflos, Vera Engels, Roland Toutain, Marcel Vibert, Leon Belieres
Synopsis: A novel by Gaston Leroux (of Phantom of the Opera fame) was the source for Parfum de la Dame en Noir (Perfume of the Lady in Black). The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder. The film's highlight Read More
Actors: Lyne Clévers, Maurice de Canonge, Roland Toutain
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