Georges Saillard

Georges Saillard

Movies for Georges Saillard...

No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Title: No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Released: April 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the fun of it. A few days pass after the crime is accomplished and one of them suddenly realizes that a reward is being offered by the aunt to anyone who would bring her her pet back. Mademoiselle Hélène, the kind-hearted social worker, does it for them and gives them the reward money, which is instantly exchanged for lollipops, nougat and merry-go-round and cinema tickets. So, why not continue? That's what they do, abducting several dogs, until they realize they are becoming ... too rich! They can't buy themselves luxurious gifts or else their parents are bound to suspect something. Instead, they decide to do good by helping poor people around them. One day, Pierrot, a member of the gang, gets run down by a cyclist and becomes blind.
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Le Pavillon de la folle
Title: Le Pavillon de la folle
Released: November 28, 1945
Type: Movie
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Le valet maître
Title: Le valet maître
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gustave Morillon, are... born masters, even if, like him, they are valets. Morillon will indeed prove better at bridge than his master and will eventually win the affection of Antonia, a lively foreigner Ravier also coveted.
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Promesses
Title: Promesses
Released: April 24, 1939
Type: Movie
A scout leader enlists a friend of hers who broke off her engagement because of the young man's ruin. Both try to instill in the young boys entrusted to them a sense of duty and honor.
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Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Title: Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Character: The abbot
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
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Café de Paris
Title: Café de Paris
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
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The Midnight Airplane
Title: The Midnight Airplane
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals. She manages to escape her dangerous friends while a shootout wipes them all out.
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Un soir à Marseille
Title: Un soir à Marseille
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.
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Ramuntcho
Title: Ramuntcho
Character: Captain
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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Legions of Honor
Title: Legions of Honor
Character: Hospital doctor
Released: February 17, 1938
Type: Movie
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
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I Accuse
Title: I Accuse
Character: The doctor
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
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Yoshiwara
Title: Yoshiwara
Character: Le médecin
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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The Citadel of Silence
Title: The Citadel of Silence
Character: An insurgent
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
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Franco de port
Title: Franco de port
Character: Doctor of the Judicial Police (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
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Marthe Richard
Title: Marthe Richard
Released: April 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.
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A Man to Kill
Title: A Man to Kill
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Title: The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Character: Breuning
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Varieté
Title: Varieté
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
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L'amour en cage
Title: L'amour en cage
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
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Honeymoon Trip
Title: Honeymoon Trip
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.
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Une faim de loup
Title: Une faim de loup
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
René is hungry and has no money. He returns home, where only bills await him. Her neighbor Lulu is a film actress. She tries to get him hired as an extra on the set where she herself works. It is a film about gastronomy. He thinks he can finally get his fill of food, but bad luck, he plays the role of an old man who pushes her away. At the end of the day, he returns home and, passing in front of his landlady who receives, goes to mime them all that is supposed to have taken place during the filming by eating all the food offered to his appetite. After this meal, he will invite his neighbor Lulu to come to his place.
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A story among a thousand
Title: A story among a thousand
Released: October 28, 1931
Type: Movie
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Asile de nuit
Title: Asile de nuit
Character: Le directeur
Released: April 4, 1930
Type: Movie
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Thénardier
Released: November 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Hand of Iron
Title: Hand of Iron
Character: Lieutenant Jacques de Nafau
Released: July 1, 1912
Type: Movie
A 1912 crime film.
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The End of Robespierre
Title: The End of Robespierre
Character: Maximilien de Robespierre
Released: April 5, 1912
Type: Movie
This film is not exceedingly well acted, but has the additional charm of being taken from the actual history of the man whose personality dominated the Committee of Safety in the early days of the French Revolution. It's tragic but enthralling, and full of the atmosphere of those more than troublous times of the French Revolution, when blood was shed like water and men seemed turned to beasts.
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Bonaparte et Pichegru
Title: Bonaparte et Pichegru
Released: January 16, 1912
Type: Movie
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Dog and Wolf
Title: Dog and Wolf
Released: February 9, 1911
Type: Movie
An old surgeon shows kindness to a tramp.