Roland Toutain

Roland Toutain

Born: October 18, 1905
Died: October 16, 1977
in Paris, France

Movies for Roland Toutain...

The Inspector Likes a Fight
Title: The Inspector Likes a Fight
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans.
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Sidi-Bel-Abbès
Title: Sidi-Bel-Abbès
Released: April 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Alain, a doctor, has had his life turned upside down by a family tragedy. To forget, Alain joins the Foreign Legion. With the support of his captain, he wins the trust of the caïd Ben Hadj, heals and saves the latter's son, and falls in love with Kadidja, whom the caïd has entrusted to his care. Ben Hadj fights against the rebels, but sees his friend Alain die. Kadidja emerges to avenge him.
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Captain Ardant
Title: Captain Ardant
Character: Lionel Mancelle
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel leader Malek. In order to appropriate himself in arms, he does not hesitate to take the captain's collaborator hostage and to do despicable blackmail.
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Dakota 308
Title: Dakota 308
Character: Pilote
Released: April 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!
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A Certain Mister
Title: A Certain Mister
Character: Un complice
Released: May 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned police commissioner and his clumsy assistant, young inspector César, join forces with a colorful trio of thieves nicknamed Le Pouce (Thumb), L'Index (Index Finger) and Le Majeur (Middle Finger)...
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Wicked City
Title: Wicked City
Released: November 16, 1949
Type: Movie
A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.
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Halte... Police!
Title: Halte... Police!
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Darrac, a reporter for Paris-Inter, and Nicole, a journalist for Le Soir-Express, know each other, compete and end up falling in love over the three police investigations they follow for their newspapers.
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We Are Not Married
Title: We Are Not Married
Released: November 8, 1946
Type: Movie
They have been living together for some time in a bohemian environment. The boy is attracted to a friend of his mistress and he frankly acknowledges his feeling. His companion favors meetings and even multiplies them: satiety, habituation, weariness set in very quickly. It is the shrewd mistress who will be married.
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Faut ce qu'il faut
Title: Faut ce qu'il faut
Released: February 12, 1946
Type: Movie
In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little girl. He tells her that he is married and that for him the outcome of this adventure was not really planned. The mobilization separates them but the young man will end up divorcing and with the relentless help of a friend, will find his mistress and his child and will be able to marry her in spite of the chaos of the war.
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The Bohemian Life
Title: The Bohemian Life
Character: Diorama man
Released: October 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
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Secret Documents
Title: Secret Documents
Released: May 30, 1945
Type: Movie
An adventure between rival spies about documents concerning the process for extracting fuel from seawater. A love story that threatens to turn tragic, since the young woman enlisted by force in the network of doctor Morenius falls in love of her rival before returning, triumphant, to her fiancé.
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Title: L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Character: Georges Bardin
Released: February 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home, he finds his house broken into. Convinced that the game continues, he does not understand that he is dealing with real gangsters. His recklessness allows him to rout the criminals.
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The Eternal Return
Title: The Eternal Return
Character: Lionel
Released: December 13, 1943
Type: Movie
A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.
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Mysteries of Paris
Title: Mysteries of Paris
Character: Cabrion
Released: September 8, 1943
Type: Movie
Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Scapin
Released: June 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
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Une idée à l'eau
Title: Une idée à l'eau
Released: October 21, 1942
Type: Movie
Three screenwriters try to write a comedy about a young first man who must conquer a rich billionaire on a desert island.
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Forte tête
Title: Forte tête
Character: 'La Clapette'
Released: June 10, 1942
Type: Movie
René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre. A series of circumstances lead him to save little Gérard, the bank manager's grandson, from a fire. The child becomes attached to René, who manages to discover the real culprit of the theft.
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Gambling Hell
Title: Gambling Hell
Character: Pierre Milley
Released: April 11, 1942
Type: Movie
In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in ignorance of his profession. She is torn from her environment and saved from tragedy by a young journalist who loves her.
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The Path of Honor
Title: The Path of Honor
Character: Le lieutenant Péresc
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
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Three from St. Cyr
Title: Three from St. Cyr
Character: Paul Parent
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
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The Rules of the Game
Title: The Rules of the Game
Character: André Jurieux
Released: July 9, 1939
Type: Movie
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.
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Le Paradis des voleurs
Title: Le Paradis des voleurs
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes with the jewels, with enormous success.
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Cas de conscience
Title: Cas de conscience
Released: May 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A doctor passionate about research leaves an uncle with an inheritance to die, knowing that he is the legatee. His work succeeds, but overcome by remorse, the doctor tries to commit suicide. He is saved thanks to the understanding of his wife and they both leave for the East to do research on leprosy.
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Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
Title: Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
Character: Jacques Dancourt
Released: May 10, 1939
Type: Movie
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Prince de mon cœur
Title: Prince de mon cœur
Character: James Okay - le journaliste
Released: November 17, 1938
Type: Movie
One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his friends. Involuntary architect of a plot, she forces the prince to return to the throne and agrees to share the burdens of power with him.
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Barnabé
Title: Barnabé
Character: Count Paul de Marengo
Released: May 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he is confused with the Count of Marengo whom Mme Petit-Durand wants to give as husband to her daughter, who has already made her choice.
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
Title: Three Artillerymen on the Move
Character: Jacques Dancourt
Released: April 24, 1938
Type: Movie
During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
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The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Title: The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Character: Tony
Released: November 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Nina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers.
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Un scandale aux Galeries
Title: Un scandale aux Galeries
Released: July 28, 1937
Type: Movie
The son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has his sentimental disappointments. A double marriage puts a happy ending to the plot.
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Yoshiwara
Title: Yoshiwara
Character: Pawlik
Released: June 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
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Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Title: Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Three happy reservists are doing a military period. One evening out and about, thinking they were going back to the barracks, they enter a boarding school for young girls. They exchange their uniforms for the dresses of three teachers, which launches them into a series of incredible adventures for a few days.
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Trois... six... neuf
Title: Trois... six... neuf
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Pierre loves Agnès who prefers Clément, an aviator. Out of desperation, he will commit suicide. Agnès then concludes a pact with him. During the three months that Clément will be absent, Pierre will be able to see her as much as he wants. She thinks that this time will be enough for the young man to realize that she is not the ideal woman for him.
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Jenny
Title: Jenny
Character: Xavier
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
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Haut comme trois pommes
Title: Haut comme trois pommes
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter because the latter married a showman.
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The Great Temptation
Title: The Great Temptation
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Charles
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
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Flight Into Darkness
Title: Flight Into Darkness
Character: Narbonne
Released: October 22, 1935
Type: Movie
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
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Sacrifice of Honor
Title: Sacrifice of Honor
Character: Leduc
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
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 (Robert Vidalin) but he now seems strangely preoccupied. It turns out that the ship is on a secret mission, which ultimately dooms the vessel to a Lusitania-like death. After the sinking, Captain De Corlaix (Victor Francen) faces a court-martial, and it is at this point that the film clarifies several baffling plot points. Despite its complexity, the story is fairly believable, with the exception of the grafted-on romantic subplot.
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Cease Firing
Title: Cease Firing
Character: Fauvette
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing happens, neither in journalism nor in insurance.
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Liliom
Title: Liliom
Character: The drunken sailor
Released: May 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
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C'était un musicien
Title: C'était un musicien
Character: François
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves.Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
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Miquette and Her Mother
Title: Miquette and Her Mother
Character: Urbain de la Tour Mirande, le neveu du marquis, amoureux transi de Miquette
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.
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Aviator Rouletabille
Title: Aviator Rouletabille
Character: Joseph Rouletabille
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Rouletabille interrupts his vacation in Hungary to fight a gang of air pirates with his boss Sainclair and the daughter of Budapest's chief of Police.
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Un coup manqué
Title: Un coup manqué
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A burglar breaks into an apartment but can not get out.
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The Nice Adventure
Title: The Nice Adventure
Character: Bernard
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
Hoping to scare wealthy young Bernard into getting married to his longtime fiancee Georgette, a phony fortune-teller is hired to inform Bernard 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 Étienne. Instead of heading towards the altar, however, Étienne decides to live his last few months on earth to the fullest -- and as a result becomes a millionaire at the gaming tables of Monte Carlo. Upon learning that he isn't going to kick the bucket after all, our hero pretends to be at death's door anyway, all for the purpose of patching up the rocky romance between Bernard and Georgette.
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Prisoner of My Heart
Title: Prisoner of My Heart
Released: April 22, 1932
Type: Movie
Having fallen madly in love with the daughter of a prison guard, Guignolet climbs the wall to free her. He falls into this prison yard where he ends up being a prisoner in the heart of the delicious daughter of the guard.
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My Dream Woman
Title: My Dream Woman
Character: Fred Hessner
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
A penniless young musician seduces a millionaire American widow, lives with her in her hotel for an entire day, spends lavishly, ridicules the suitors and lands an exceptional deal that finally allows him to marry her.
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Scent of the Woman in Black
Title: Scent of the Woman in Black
Character: Joseph Rouletabille
Released: November 6, 1931
Type: Movie
The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
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White as snow
Title: White as snow
Released: July 31, 1931
Type: Movie
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Lovers of Vienna
Title: Lovers of Vienna
Character: Georges
Released: January 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Pierre and Georges both love Gretel who, in turn, is in love with Georges. Georges falls in love with another, Dolly, but the lover of the latter threatens to stop supporting him. Georges ends up finding Gretel, who forgives him, while Pierre steps aside to ensure their happiness.
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Character: Joseph Rouletabille
Released: September 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from the inside, no one can understand how the attacker managed to enter or leave the room. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives on the scene to protect Mathilde and resolve the mystery of the yellow room.