Jacques Erwin

Jacques Erwin

Movies for Jacques Erwin...

Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
Title: Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
Released: January 4, 1954
Type: Movie
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relatives who would go any low to take this money away from him. They are being led by a small-time crook. Mr. Bard's natural shyness and good heart lead him to the journey of self-exploration and finding his true love.
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Gigolo
Title: Gigolo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Title: Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Character: Gaston
Released: April 6, 1951
Type: Movie
A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
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Forbidden to the Public
Title: Forbidden to the Public
Character: Playwright Hervé Montagne
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Hervé Montagne, a famous but awfully self-satisfied playwright, is furious when he learns that the actress signed to lead in his latest play will not be able to play the part on account of pregnancy. All the more as no other great actress is available. Well, in fact there IS one, Gabrielle Tristan, a great name of the French stage. The only trouble is that she is Hervé's ex-wife and that they have not been on speaking terms for ten tears.
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La Grande Volière
Title: La Grande Volière
Released: May 23, 1948
Type: Movie
A young pilot, Martin, applies for the Ecole Militaire de Salon. He is accused of having caused the accident of one of his bosses, his career is then threatened.
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Captain Blomet
Title: Captain Blomet
Character: Mr. de Cugnac
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.
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The Chips Are Down
Title: The Chips Are Down
Character: Jean Aguerra
Released: July 1, 1947
Type: Movie
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
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La Rabouilleuse
Title: La Rabouilleuse
Character: Commander Maxime Gillet
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
1824 in Issoudun. A bourgeois, Rouget, lives as a husband and wife, La Rabouilleuse, who holds him in her power. The old man's nephew, ex-Colonel Philippe Bridau of the Imperial Guard, swears to hunt the intruder.
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Little Nothings
Title: Little Nothings
Character: Alceste
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
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The Italian Straw Hat
Title: The Italian Straw Hat
Released: June 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having a secret rendezvous with her lover. In order to save the woman's honor, Fadinard must find the exact same type of hat to replace the one his horse ate and still be able to get to his wedding on time.
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L'An 40
Title: L'An 40
Character: Jacques
Released: January 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Félix Raffut, a Périgord squire terrified by the German invasion, carries out the exodus of his family and his furniture towards supposedly hospitable places.
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The Wonderful Night
Title: The Wonderful Night
Character: Le forgeron
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas.
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There's No Tomorrow
Title: There's No Tomorrow
Character: Hermann
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.
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Nine Bachelors
Title: Nine Bachelors
Character: Duc Julien de Bénéval
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
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Corsican Brothers
Title: Corsican Brothers
Character: Angelo
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Character: Louis XIV Jeune et le Duc de Montpensier
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: Troubetzkoï
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
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Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Title: Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
Character: Toukatchewsky
Released: March 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory.
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Ramuntcho
Title: Ramuntcho
Character: Arrochkoa
Released: February 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is in love with Gracieuse whose mother, Dolorès, bitterly dislikes Ramuntcho because he was born an illegitimate child. His smuggling activities force him to join the army and he is sent to Saigon and, because of her mother's desire to marry her off to someone else, Gracieuse joins a convent.
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J'arrose mes galons
Title: J'arrose mes galons
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachutist champion in spite of himself, and becomes famous.
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La brigade en jupons
Title: La brigade en jupons
Released: July 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers.
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Stradivarius
Title: Stradivarius
Character: Officier
Released: October 18, 1935
Type: Movie
A French-language version of Stradivari (1935).
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Tossing Ship
Title: Tossing Ship
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
Surprised by the fog, the ship Fraternité suffered significant damage. Therefore, an investigation must be carried out in order to determine the conditions under which the incident occurred. It falls to deputy Puy-Pradal who has just been appointed high commissioner of the navy: the latter, after his meeting with an actor, gradually forgets the mission entrusted to him.
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Moon over Morocco
Title: Moon over Morocco
Character: Midlock
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...