Victor Francen

Victor Francen

Born: August 4, 1888
Died: November 18, 1977
in Tirlemont, Belgium

Movies for Victor Francen...

Title: I Spy
Released: September 15, 1965
Type: TV
I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The characters' travels as ostensible "tennis bums", Robinson playing talented tennis as an amateur with the wealthy in return for food and lodging, and Scott tagging along, provided a cover story concealing their roles as top agents for the Pentagon. Their real work usually kept them busy chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Three F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Studios where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season. Actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, best known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and '50s, was the executive producer. He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series.
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The Big Scare
Title: The Big Scare
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
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Fanny
Title: Fanny
Character: Panisse's older brother
Released: June 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.
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The Indian Tomb
Title: The Indian Tomb
Character: Penitent
Released: March 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.
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A Farewell to Arms
Title: A Farewell to Arms
Character: Colonel Valentini
Released: December 14, 1957
Type: Movie
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
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Bedevilled
Title: Bedevilled
Character: Father Du Rocher
Released: April 28, 1955
Type: Movie
A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.
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Hell and High Water
Title: Hell and High Water
Character: Prof. Montel
Released: February 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.
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Title: Letter to Loretta
Character: Brancardier
Released: September 20, 1953
Type: TV
Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show was hosted by Loretta Young who also played the lead in various episodes. Letter to Loretta was sponsored by Procter & Gamble from 1953 through 1960. The final season's sponsor was Warner-Lambert's Listerine.
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Adventures of Captain Fabian
Title: Adventures of Captain Fabian
Character: Henri Brissac
Released: October 6, 1951
Type: Movie
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.
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La nuit s'achève
Title: La nuit s'achève
Character: Dr. Coudray
Released: November 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis, Danielle's fiancé, a nurse, becomes blind following an explosion in the mine where he works. Coming from Lyon, Doctor Coudray, whose natural son Gilbert - who loves Danielle - dies while helping his father threatened by the person responsible for Jean-Louis' accident, will work to restore his sight.
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Stolen Affections
Title: Stolen Affections
Character: Henri Dumières
Released: November 5, 1948
Type: Movie
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
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To the Victor
Title: To the Victor
Character: Police Inspector Beauvais
Released: October 26, 1948
Type: Movie
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
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The Beginning or the End
Title: The Beginning or the End
Character: Dr. Marre
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
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The Beast with Five Fingers
Title: The Beast with Five Fingers
Character: Francis Ingram
Released: February 8, 1947
Type: Movie
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
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Night and Day
Title: Night and Day
Character: Anatole Giron
Released: July 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Swellegant and elegant. Delux and delovely. Cole Porter was the most sophisticated name in 20th-century songwriting. And to play him on screen, Hollywood chose debonair icon Cary Grant. Grant stars for the first time in color in this fanciful biopic. Alexis Smith plays Linda, whose serendipitous meetings with Porter lead to a meeting at the alter. More than 20 of his songs grace this tail of triumph and tragedy, with Grant lending is amiable voice to "You're the Top", "Night and Day" and more. Monty Woolley, a Yale contemporary of Porter, portrays himself. And Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Eve Arden and others provide vocals and verve. Lights down. Curtain up. Showtune standards embraced by generations are yours to enjoy in "Night and Day."
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Devotion
Title: Devotion
Character: Constantin Heger
Released: April 5, 1946
Type: Movie
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Character: Legare
Released: December 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Rancher Clay Hardin arrives in San Antonio to search for and capture Roy Stuart, notorious leader of a gang of cattle rustlers. The vicious outlaw is indeed in the Texan town, intent on winning the affections of a beautiful chanteuse named Jeanne Starr. When the lovely lady meets and falls in love with the charismatic Hardin, the stakes for both men become higher.
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Confidential Agent
Title: Confidential Agent
Character: Licata
Released: November 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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The Conspirators
Title: The Conspirators
Character: Hugo Von Mohr
Released: October 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
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The Mask of Dimitrios
Title: The Mask of Dimitrios
Character: Wladislaw Grudek
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
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Passage to Marseille
Title: Passage to Marseille
Character: Captain Patain Malo
Released: March 11, 1944
Type: Movie
A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.
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In Our Time
Title: In Our Time
Character: Count Pawel Orwid
Released: February 19, 1944
Type: Movie
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
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The Desert Song
Title: The Desert Song
Character: Caid Yousseff
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
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Madame Curie
Title: Madame Curie
Character: President of University
Released: December 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Vyshinsky, chief trial prosecutor
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Tales of Manhattan
Title: Tales of Manhattan
Character: Arturo Bellini - Symphony conductor
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.
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Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Title: Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Character: Florimond Massey
Released: June 26, 1942
Type: Movie
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
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The Tuttles of Tahiti
Title: The Tuttles of Tahiti
Character: Dr. Blondin
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
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Hold Back the Dawn
Title: Hold Back the Dawn
Character: Van Den Luecken
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
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African Diary
Title: African Diary
Character: Le commandant Bréval
Released: June 25, 1940
Type: Movie
During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
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Cordial Agreement
Title: Cordial Agreement
Character: Edouard VII, Prince and King
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
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The End of the Day
Title: The End of the Day
Character: Marny
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
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A Foolish Maiden
Title: A Foolish Maiden
Character: Marcel Armaury
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother discovers the affair and the couple must flee.
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Tamara la complaisante
Title: Tamara la complaisante
Character: Grigory
Released: February 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
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I Accuse
Title: I Accuse
Character: Jean Diaz
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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Forfaiture
Title: Forfaiture
Character: Pierre Moret
Released: November 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
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Feu!
Title: Feu!
Character: André Frémiet
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.
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Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Title: Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Character: le capitaine Bruchot
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
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The Call of Life
Title: The Call of Life
Character: Professor Rougeon
Released: May 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.
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Nights of Fire
Title: Nights of Fire
Character: Fedor Andreiev
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
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The King
Title: The King
Character: Le roi Jean IV de Cerdagne
Released: October 29, 1936
Type: Movie
King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.
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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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The Open Road
Title: The Open Road
Character: Le Chemineau
Released: November 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A tramp, a vagrant, returns twenty years later to the village where he had seduced a young girl. He forces her father to marry her off.
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Sacrifice of Honor
Title: Sacrifice of Honor
Character: Capitaine de Corlaix
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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The Adventurer
Title: The Adventurer
Character: Étienne Ranson
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.
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Le Voleur
Title: Le Voleur
Character: Richard Voisin
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
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Les Ailes brisées
Title: Les Ailes brisées
Character: Fabrège
Released: June 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Fabrège is a ladies' man. His friend Pascal, at the circle, evokes these conquests, among others Denise Lamblin for whom he fought a duel and this other woman for whom he stayed an entire night, in the pouring rain, under his windows. While the next day they have to take the train together, at the sight of a female figure on the station platform, Fabrège changes trains and sets out to conquer the beautiful stranger. Arrived in Cannes, they go down to the Miramar hotel and their idyll begins.
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The Dreamy Mouth
Title: The Dreamy Mouth
Character: Marcel, l'amant
Released: October 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in the concert hall. Pierre, her husband, is first violin of the Orchester Colonne. That evening, she discovers Marcel, a brilliant concerto soloist, and falls in love with him. Pierre and Marcel are friends, which complicates the situation. Pierre invites his friend to the house, without suspecting what will happen. The young woman, trying to find a clever pretext for a one-on-one meeting, quickly reveals her feelings to Marcel.
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Ariane, Russian Maid
Title: Ariane, Russian Maid
Character: Constantin
Released: February 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
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When Love Is Over
Title: When Love Is Over
Character: Pierre Meyran
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time.
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The Eagle
Title: The Eagle
Character: Flambeau
Released: August 28, 1931
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
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End of the World
Title: End of the World
Character: Martial Novalic
Released: January 23, 1931
Type: Movie
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.