Abel Jacquin

Abel Jacquin

Born: July 16, 1893
Died: May 12, 1968
in Bois-Colombes, France

Movies for Abel Jacquin...

Les pépées au service secret
Title: Les pépées au service secret
Character: Le directeur de la prison
Released: August 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Elvire, Nathalie and Christine, three young ladies with a proven track record, are called in by the Secret Service to retrieve coveted papers concerning a new explosive. Introduced to a fearsome environment thanks to a female helper, they face kidnappings, play a double game, toil endlessly, lend helicopters and finally triumph, smiling, after a breathtaking fight.
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The Indiscreet
Title: The Indiscreet
Released: March 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A dying man entrusts 25 million to a young girl's care, but she's afraid of being suspected of theft.
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Nights of Shame
Title: Nights of Shame
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, and she befriends Maria, in love with the gentle René. Marcelle's aunt is murdered, and her daughter arrested. Marie-Thérèse sets out to prove her innocence, but the two boys learn all about the two unfortunate women. Pierre is unforgiving. Happier, Maria will start a new life with René.
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The Unfrocked One
Title: The Unfrocked One
Character: Le père supérieur
Released: February 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes his life to bringing Maurice back into the fold. Things don't turn out quite as Gerard hopes, however; he has not reckoned with the possibility that Maurice may have been driven into insanity by his raging self-hatred.
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Skipper Next to God
Title: Skipper Next to God
Character: The American Commander
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity.
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The Unknown Road
Title: The Unknown Road
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
The Moroccan adventure of Charles de Foucauld, explorer in Morocco, in 1883-1884. The ex-officer's contact with the wisdom of the Koran, the mores of the natives, the solitude on the edge of the oases made him rediscover his faith and already we guessed in him the future Father de Foucauld.
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At the Grand Balcony
Title: At the Grand Balcony
Character: Darbouin
Released: November 30, 1949
Type: Movie
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
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The Hell of Lost Pilots
Title: The Hell of Lost Pilots
Character: Colonel Arnal
Released: August 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reserves are limited to two days. Each, among the military crew and the civilian passengers, experiences the ordeal according to his character.
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Piège à hommes
Title: Piège à hommes
Released: February 2, 1949
Type: Movie
A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.
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Man to Men
Title: Man to Men
Released: October 1, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
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Femme sans passé
Title: Femme sans passé
Character: Demaison
Released: August 27, 1948
Type: Movie
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. To get out of it, she is forced to take on the identity of the wife of a third man, whom she resembles.
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
Title: The Bouquinquant Brothers
Released: January 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.
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Counter Investigation
Title: Counter Investigation
Released: March 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
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Pétrus
Title: Pétrus
Character: Inspector Renault
Released: October 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue, a counterfeiter. Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Released: October 31, 1945
Type: Movie
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
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L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim
Title: L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim
Character: Le commandant
Released: July 28, 1939
Type: Movie
In the thirties, a Chasseur Alpin commander is accused of spying and sentenced to death. At the last minute, he is saved from the firing squad by a female spy's confession.
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Peace on the Rhine
Title: Peace on the Rhine
Character: Fritz Muller
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
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Ultimatum
Title: Ultimatum
Character: Captain Karl Burgstaller
Released: October 27, 1938
Type: Movie
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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The Midnight Airplane
Title: The Midnight Airplane
Character: Le capitaine Morel
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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Gibraltar
Title: Gibraltar
Character: Lt. Frank Lloyd
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
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Tarakanawa
Title: Tarakanawa
Character: Nikovsky
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
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Princess Tarakanova
Title: Princess Tarakanova
Character: Capitano Nikolsky
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.
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Legions of Honor
Title: Legions of Honor
Character: Lieutenant Vallin
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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Boulot aviateur
Title: Boulot aviateur
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they come up against Boulot, a drunken but clever driver, who ends up having them arrested after revealing their ride.
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The Queen of Spades
Title: The Queen of Spades
Character: Prince Tomski
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
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Arsène Lupin, Detective
Title: Arsène Lupin, Detective
Character: Brémond
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in order to unveil the criminal activities of a villain. When he succeeds the villain returns the favour. The unmasked Arsène Lupin manages to escape with the villain's gangster moll as his new companion.
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Social Police
Title: Social Police
Character: Siro
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
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Blanchette
Title: Blanchette
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest.
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French White Cargo
Title: French White Cargo
Character: Constantin
Released: February 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
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Southern Carrier
Title: Southern Carrier
Character: Le capitaine
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
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Les Demi-Vierges
Title: Les Demi-Vierges
Character: Hector Le Tessier
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has not always been beyond reproach, he refuses to marry her and returns to his castle in the company of his sister who, happier than him, has met a man worthy of being in Paris. love.
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Adventure in Paris
Title: Adventure in Paris
Released: November 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.
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Anne-Marie
Title: Anne-Marie
Character: Le détective
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
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Lovers and Thieves
Title: Lovers and Thieves
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunately meets love.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young girl, and falling into the hands of justice under the charge of the father of his beloved, asks as a last resort, that the young girl may, before her execution, come and forgive her.
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La cinquième empreinte
Title: La cinquième empreinte
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
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Land Without Bread
Title: Land Without Bread
Character: French Narrator, 1937 (voice)
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.)
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Matricule 33
Title: Matricule 33
Character: le prince impérial
Released: September 29, 1933
Type: Movie
In 1917, a French deserter entered the service of German counterintelligence, but Villard (number 33) was a real French spy. Discovered, he is saved by a German spy who betrays her country for love.
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Tu m'oublieras
Title: Tu m'oublieras
Released: August 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inseparable impresarios. Twenty years later, then on the verge of death, the singer wants to entrust her daughter Yvonne to them.
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The Man Who Killed
Title: The Man Who Killed
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
The new French military attaché at the Constantinople embassy helps a young woman being blackmailed by her own husband.
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Monsieur Gazon
Title: Monsieur Gazon
Released: December 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Monsieur Gazon is not likely to win employee of the month: he is assuredly the worst salesman at the Galeries de Paris ! And, as the customers regularly complain he is regularly fired... and hired again ! This time, he has once again attracted the manager's attention by... courting his own fiancée!