Max Dalban

Max Dalban

Born: May 27, 1908
Died: February 9, 1958
in Paris, France

Movies for Max Dalban...

In Six Easy Lessons
Title: In Six Easy Lessons
Character: Jean-Loup
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
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A Friend of the Family
Title: A Friend of the Family
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will soon regret not having let him commit suicide.
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Crazy in the Noodle
Title: Crazy in the Noodle
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he accidentally saves a suicidal young woman's life... and falls in love. Having suddenly found a reason to live, he now fears the killers he himself hired. Is there still time to call off his contract?
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
Title: I'll Get Back to Kandara
Released: December 20, 1956
Type: Movie
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his class, Bernard Cormiere.
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Good Evening Paris
Title: Good Evening Paris
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one.
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Slightly Ahead
Title: Slightly Ahead
Character: Le gros homme du hammam
Released: October 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.
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We're Moving the Colonel
Title: We're Moving the Colonel
Character: Le chef de la fanfare
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
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We're Moving the Colonel
Title: We're Moving the Colonel
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
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Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Title: Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.
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French Cancan
Title: French Cancan
Character: Patron de "La Reine Blanche" (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Leguignon the Healer
Title: Leguignon the Healer
Character: L'épicier
Released: July 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and possesses the fluid. His wife sees the benefits of this gift and urges Diogene to exercise his power, particularly on a wealthy old man, M. Coq. Arlette Leguignon, however, is in love with a young doctor, who is violently opposed to her future father-in-law. Leguignon ends up condemned and, disgusted, no longer wants to look after others. When Mr. Coq dies, making him his legatee, Leguignon has to contend with the Coq family. This time, Doctor Martinet comes to his defense. The inheritance is used to build a clinic where Leguignon can carry out his experiments as a magnetizer.
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The Secrets of the Bed
Title: The Secrets of the Bed
Released: May 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
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Boom on Paris
Title: Boom on Paris
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
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Sins of Paris
Title: Sins of Paris
Released: April 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Madeleine Lebeau, a woman who charges for her easy virtue, has a plan that has some of her customers paying more than others; she tells them she is pregnant and, to avoid complications, the men pay her money and don't hang around for the birth. Yves Furet, a shiftless gambler, who not only encourages her in her business ventures but is also her fiancée, shares the fruit of her non-labor. She latches onto a wealthy widower, Henri Vilbert, who throws her a curve-ball when, after she tells him she is pregnant, he is overjoyed as he has fallen in love with her and is looking forward to becoming a father. She plays along for a while, but becomes ashamed when she sees how Vilbert is devoting his whole life to a child that she isn't carrying. She fakes a miscarriage and his kindness makes her feel guilty and she confesses, but he doesn't believe her. So she tries another plan.
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Double or Quits
Title: Double or Quits
Character: The cafe owner
Released: February 6, 1953
Type: Movie
In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.
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It Happened in Paris
Title: It Happened in Paris
Character: Butcher
Released: December 26, 1952
Type: Movie
Wealthy American Patricia comes to spend some time at her uncle's place in Paris. While out on her own for the evening she meets pseudo-Russian prince Vladimir in a bistro.
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Beauties of the Night
Title: Beauties of the Night
Character: L'oriental qui amène des ciseaux (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Piédalu fait des miracles
Title: Piédalu fait des miracles
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this expensive dream divide the village into two clans: on one side the women, on the other the men. Piedalu, whom this conflict desolates, discovers by chance, as part of a found bicycle, a fortune in gold coins.
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Judgement of God
Title: Judgement of God
Character: Le boucher
Released: August 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
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My Wife Is Formidable
Title: My Wife Is Formidable
Character: un déménageur
Released: December 5, 1951
Type: Movie
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
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Nights of Paris
Title: Nights of Paris
Character: The giant
Released: November 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Bert and George Bernard, two American comedians, are asked by a solicitor to trace a rich heiress whose initials are tattooed on one of her thighs. All they know about her is that she is a chorus girl. This fact particularly suits Bert who is a fan of shows with light-footed and lightly dressed girls. Combining business with pleasure, the two men wind up finding the rare bird.
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Title: Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Character: Le cafetier
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
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Piédalu à Paris
Title: Piédalu à Paris
Character: Étienne
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minister of Renovation, and finds it difficult to find someone to listen to him. He meets an actress in Paris, whom he takes for a girl from his country.
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On demande un bandit
Title: On demande un bandit
Released: January 5, 1951
Type: Movie
The tribulations of Onésime Ballotin, the insurance broker from L'Art d'être courtier, this time parachuted into the ruthless world of Corsican banditry!
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Lawless Street
Title: Lawless Street
Character: Germaine 'Fifille'
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
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The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Title: The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Character: Victor
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
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Véronique
Title: Véronique
Character: The mover
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...
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Paris Waltz
Title: Paris Waltz
Character: The mover (uncredited)
Released: May 5, 1950
Type: Movie
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
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Maya
Title: Maya
Character: Le gros homme
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
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We Request an Assassin
Title: We Request an Assassin
Character: rouge
Released: October 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight hours. However the next day, money, luck and love smile at her again. Then can begin an infernal hide-and-seek between the assassin and his victim.
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The Sinners
Title: The Sinners
Character: Monsieur Barattier, Patron of the Inn
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
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The Lovers of Verona
Title: The Lovers of Verona
Released: March 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...
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Scandals of Clochemerle
Title: Scandals of Clochemerle
Character: Arthur Torbayon
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women.
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Si jeunesse savait...
Title: Si jeunesse savait...
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
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The House Under the Sea
Title: The House Under the Sea
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Title: The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Character: Le docteur
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
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Silence Is Golden
Title: Silence Is Golden
Character: Cricri, un machiniste
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
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Panic
Title: Panic
Character: Capoulade
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
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The Ideal Couple
Title: The Ideal Couple
Character: Friend of Henry
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
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Driving Lesson
Title: Driving Lesson
Character: Mario
Released: May 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
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Impasse
Title: Impasse
Released: May 15, 1946
Type: Movie
A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping her escape. As a result, Gabriel must serve three months in prison. His sentence served, unable to continue his studies, he collaborates with a gang of crooks. Gisèle, in turn, will save him from this bad situation by taking him away from his overeager associates.
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The Queer Assignment
Title: The Queer Assignment
Released: October 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
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The White Blackbird
Title: The White Blackbird
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Camusset. The latter is also one of the lovers of Lucienne Leroy, the daughter of the family, who has a penchant for Jean Bernon, a boy who dedicates verses to her. Hyacinthe is unaware that he has been robbed but the Leroy family, who are not sure, try to woo him. The family, Hyacinthe, Jean and Lucienne meet at the castle.
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Children of Chaos
Title: Children of Chaos
Character: Pierre, cafe owner (uncredited)
Released: April 26, 1944
Type: Movie
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
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The Ménard Collection
Title: The Ménard Collection
Character: Wizard
Released: April 12, 1944
Type: Movie
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
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Colonel Chabert
Title: Colonel Chabert
Character: (non crédité)
Released: December 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
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Secrets
Title: Secrets
Character: Monsieur Amadou
Released: March 17, 1943
Type: Movie
A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to be a wonderful teacher and he wins them all over,not only the student but everyone, from the grumpy dowager to the clueless gorgeous blonde girl. But the best is yet to come:the boy's mother -a married woman- falls in love with the newcomer. And she becomes jealous of her young blonde goddaughter who has a romance with Michel
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Pour le maillot jaune
Title: Pour le maillot jaune
Released: October 23, 1940
Type: Movie
The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.
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Vidocq
Title: Vidocq
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale.
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Sirocco
Title: Sirocco
Character: Jules,un ami de Chervin
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
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Life Is Ours
Title: Life Is Ours
Character: Brochard dit 'le chrono'
Released: April 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
Title: Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
Character: Tom Spink
Released: February 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.
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Toni
Title: Toni
Character: Albert
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
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Street Without a Name
Title: Street Without a Name
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street.
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Love and Cool Water
Title: Love and Cool Water
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of him and falls in love with him. She has a fat, selfish, boorish husband whom she abandons to her imaginary illnesses to marry her nice wounded man.
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Moune et son notaire
Title: Moune et son notaire
Character: Valentin Parpevieille
Released: July 21, 1933
Type: Movie
The brave notary Valentin Parpevielle has many problems with his young wife Moune, who has fallen in love with a crook count.
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Chotard and Co.
Title: Chotard and Co.
Character: le commissaire
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation conducive to quarrels between the son and the father- in-law. Until the day when Julien receives the Prix Goncourt, prestigious literary award. Chotard has a sudden change of heart.
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
Title: Boudu Saved from Drowning
Character: Godin
Released: November 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.
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Night at the Crossroads
Title: Night at the Crossroads
Released: April 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves utilize a cross-road garage as their hideaway; after accidentally murdering a jewel thief, the heat is on.
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Baleydier
Title: Baleydier
Released: January 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by the audience to be deliberately comic.
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La Chienne
Title: La Chienne
Character: Bonnard
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
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The Tournament
Title: The Tournament
Character: Le capitaine du guet
Released: February 18, 1929
Type: Movie
Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir, unfortunately only available in truncated form.
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The Sad Sack
Title: The Sad Sack
Character: L'Escouade
Released: July 18, 1928
Type: Movie
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.