Jess Hahn

Jess Hahn

Born: October 29, 1921
Died: June 29, 1998
in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Jess Hahn's career is a bit of an oddity, being one of very few American actors to establish himself in French cinema in the early 1960's. He acted exclusively in French productions for the duration of his career with the exception of the Marlon Brando vehicle "The Night of the Following Day" in 1968, which was filmed in France. He also appeared in several international coproductions and low budget films by French exploitation director Jean Marie Pallardy, for which he is arguably best-known to contemporary audiences.

Movies for Jess Hahn...

Overdose
Title: Overdose
Character: Le docteur
Released: December 8, 1989
Type: Movie
Karen, a beautiful air hostess, is implied by her fiance in international drug trafficking: drugged herself, she lets persuade to convey ten kilos of heroin from North Africa to Spain. Having narrowly escaped the police, she catches her boyfriend with another woman. Desperate and angry, she takes the drug to the sea and finds refuge with Patrick, a Spanish-American living in a castle. However, traffickers will make every effort to find her...
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La Galette du roi
Title: La Galette du roi
Character: Morrisson - TV Director
Released: January 29, 1986
Type: Movie
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
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White Fire
Title: White Fire
Character: Sam
Released: July 5, 1984
Type: Movie
While working in a diamond mine located in the desert, Bo and Ingrid, two siblings who survived a massacre as children, make a surprising discovery.
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The Innocents Abroad
Title: The Innocents Abroad
Released: May 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Adaptation of the Mark Twain novel.
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Teheran '43
Title: Teheran '43
Character: Second Terrorist
Released: July 8, 1981
Type: Movie
This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.
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Treize
Title: Treize
Character: Bob
Released: June 14, 1981
Type: Movie
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Mama Dracula
Title: Mama Dracula
Character: The Superintendent
Released: November 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A female vampire must bathe in the blood of virgins in order to stay alive. The trouble is that virgins are in short supply nowadays, and she is running into major problems in finding one.
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Title: Les 400 Coups de Virginie
Character: Humphrey
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: TV
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Johnny West
Title: Johnny West
Character: Manager
Released: September 22, 1977
Type: Movie
Film by Koller.
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The Man from Chicago
Title: The Man from Chicago
Character: Jeff
Released: July 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In Turkey, the son of a rich manager is kidnapped. This boy finds a friend in one of the kidnapper when the adventures evolve.
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Title: Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
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No Pockets in a Shroud
Title: No Pockets in a Shroud
Character: Walter
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exposes the socialist mayor's homosexual crime, he is shot dead by an unknown assailant in a cul-de-sac just before the paper is due to appear.
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Three Tough Guys
Title: Three Tough Guys
Character: The Bartender
Released: May 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.
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Title: Mysterious Island
Character: Bonaventure Pencroft
Released: December 17, 1973
Type: TV
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Title: Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Character: Jeannot
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
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The Mysterious Island
Title: The Mysterious Island
Character: Bonaventure Pencroft
Released: March 17, 1973
Type: Movie
1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before crash landing their leader, the brilliant engineer Cyrus Smith falls to his apparent death in the raging waters, but later turns up completely unharmed and with no memory of how he was saved. His fellow castaways are: the famous journalist Gedeon Spilett, the salty sailor Bonaventure Pencroff, the orphaned boy Harbert Brown and the black servant of Smith, Nab. The dog Top also joined them in the escape.
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The Grand Duel
Title: The Grand Duel
Character: Bighorse
Released: December 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Character: Sacha
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
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Sexy Sinners
Title: Sexy Sinners
Character: Prior (uncredited)
Released: August 4, 1972
Type: Movie
During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.
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The Artless One
Title: The Artless One
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Inspired by a Voltaire tale, a satire of society and its values through the astonished and critical eyes of a newly arrived "ingénue" who ridicules all customs in order to marry the woman of his heart.
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Bad Man's River
Title: Bad Man's River
Character: Tom Odie
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
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Rum Runners
Title: Rum Runners
Character: Piet aka "Big Dutch"
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
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Supergirl
Title: Supergirl
Character: Polonsky
Released: May 14, 1971
Type: Movie
In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another planet, who confuses and flusters the men on earth, where she has landed. The men follow her wherever she goes. Marquard Bohm is no exception here - he leaves his wife in a lurch and travels with the Supergirl to Spain. The girl doesn't tell much about herself; she reports, though, about an impending threat from outer space.
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Die Sonne angreifen
Title: Die Sonne angreifen
Character: Hippolit
Released: May 10, 1971
Type: Movie
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Troubleshooters
Title: Troubleshooters
Character: Kongo, La brute américaine
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
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Title: Great Performances
Character: Blucher
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
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Atlantic Wall
Title: Atlantic Wall
Character: Un colonel Britannique
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
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Docteur Caraïbes
Title: Docteur Caraïbes
Released: July 29, 1970
Type: Movie
The islands of the Caribbean Sea. Tiberio, an astonishing junk dealer, runs a store selling bits and pieces of wreckage fished here and there... A certain Jeff, a sailor with a passion for the bottle... "works" with Tiberio, perfecting old maps showing ships with precious cargoes lying around. Jeff is attacked with a machine gun by "the sea lice" gangsters led by a certain Nero, in the service of a disturbing character, Denniger, who haunts the area aboard his yacht. A young local doctor, nicknamed Doctor Caraïbe, comes to Jeff's rescue.
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The Novices
Title: The Novices
Character: L'Américain
Released: April 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A nun and a spirited prostitute convert an ambulance into a bordello on wheels.
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The Comeuppance
Title: The Comeuppance
Character: Bob
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning revenge against those who sent him to prison. He offers his two fellow prisoners, seasoned mobsters, to help him recover an important document from a diamond dealer in Le Havre. This paper would rehabilitate his father, his two comrades being able to keep the diamonds contained in the safe... But the coup does not go as planned.
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L'Amour des 4 colonels
Title: L'Amour des 4 colonels
Character: Wesley
Released: December 24, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Night of the Following Day
Title: The Night of the Following Day
Character: Friendly
Released: February 19, 1969
Type: Movie
A gang of four professional criminals kidnaps a wealthy teenage girl from an airport in Paris in a meticulous plan to extort money from the girl's wealthy father. Holding her prisoner in an isolated beach house, the gang's scheme runs perfectly until their personal demons surface and lead to a series of betrayals.
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Fuller Report, Base Stockholm
Title: Fuller Report, Base Stockholm
Character: Eddy Bennet
Released: February 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Dick Worth (Ken Clark) is an American racing driver in Stockholm to put on an exhibition that his boss Bennet (Jess Hahn) hopes will result in orders for cars, and instead gets drawn into CIA business when he is mistaken for a spy and takes on the job of recovering the Fuller Report, CIA information about an assassination plot.
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The Woman Is a Stranger
Title: The Woman Is a Stranger
Character: Floyd Delaney
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in Cannes, lures her to his hotel room and strangles her. His mother finds out, but can she keep her mouth shut to protect her son? Meanwhile, the young killer meets another pretty blonde...
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Rita the Field Marshal
Title: Rita the Field Marshal
Character: Major Bill Hocks
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
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Million Dollar Man
Title: Million Dollar Man
Character: Henry
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes from prison with the only man who knows the location of the bogus bills. The duo is shadowed by a group of former Nazi soldiers who hope they will lead them to recover the lost loot. The feature plays as a crime drama with overtones of international espionage.
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Your Turn to Die
Title: Your Turn to Die
Character: Boris
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow conspirators shoot him in the back. Smash manages to get a clue to newspaper reporter Robert Foster, who sets of to retrieve the diamonds. Despite becoming a target for the rest of the gang, Foster prefers to rely on fashion model Arabella and news paper photographer 'Flash' instead of the more seasoned Inspector Chandler.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: Commander Braid
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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The Saint Lies in Wait
Title: The Saint Lies in Wait
Character: Hoppy Uniatz
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Templar.
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The Postman Goes to War
Title: The Postman Goes to War
Character: Jess Parker
Released: August 10, 1966
Type: Movie
The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, he falls in love with his Indochinese nurse Vang.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Ogden
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Secret Agent Super Dragon
Title: Secret Agent Super Dragon
Character: Baby Face
Released: February 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot to imperil the world with a potent new drug.
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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Title: The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
Character: Fêtard, le milliardaire noctambule
Released: February 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
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Up to His Ears
Title: Up to His Ears
Character: Cornelius
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
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The Wise Guys
Title: The Wise Guys
Character: Calderon aka "Nénesse"
Released: October 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
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What's New Pussycat?
Title: What's New Pussycat?
Character: Peter Werner
Released: June 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
Title: How Not to Rob a Department Store
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.
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Les Gorilles
Title: Les Gorilles
Character: Boris Alexis Alexevich, the make-up artist
Released: December 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
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The Great Spy Chase
Title: The Great Spy Chase
Character: Commodore O'Brien
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
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Topkapi
Title: Topkapi
Character: Hans
Released: September 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
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Que personne ne sorte
Title: Que personne ne sorte
Character: Bugsy Weis
Released: July 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.
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A Blonde Like That
Title: A Blonde Like That
Character: Sam
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: Assistant Inspector #2
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
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Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
Title: Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
Character: Bertrand, 'le braco'
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
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My Uncle from Texas
Title: My Uncle from Texas
Character: Brad
Released: September 28, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty years later, a letter from him arrived in the village: "No, I'm not dead yet, but it won't be long now. A Combalette should be sent here to settle a question of big money". The family took counsel and delegated their youngest son, Dieudonné, a cook by trade. Dieudonné arrived safely in New York, but soon found himself short of money. Somehow, he managed to reach that prodigious corner of Texas where, he thought, his uncle's many factories would be built. Neither the factories nor his uncle, who died in poverty a week ago, welcome him there. Dîeudonné can't imagine returning to his native village to announce this new family disgrace; for one thing, he hasn't got a penny in his pocket. The owner of a modest saloon hires him as a cook.
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Sign of the Lion
Title: Sign of the Lion
Character: Pierre Wesselrin
Released: May 3, 1962
Type: Movie
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Character: La Douceur
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
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Dynamite Jack
Title: Dynamite Jack
Character: Sergeant Bob
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the thumb of dangerous outlaw Dynamite Jack, only to discover the friend he was to meet there has been murdered. Worse, it is not long before Antoine realizes he is Jack's perfect lookalike. All the same, he decides to settle down in the small town, where he becomes the local tax collector. One day, he finds himself face to face with the bandit...
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Sahara on Fire
Title: Sahara on Fire
Character: Jeff Gordon
Released: January 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
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Gorilla's Waltz
Title: Gorilla's Waltz
Character: Ted the Hook
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
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Tonight We Kill
Title: Tonight We Kill
Character: Dave, le copain de Larry
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
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A Woman Like Satan
Title: A Woman Like Satan
Released: February 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
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The Tiger Attacks
Title: The Tiger Attacks
Character: Donan
Released: January 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Character: Le marin blessé
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
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The Sicilian
Title: The Sicilian
Character: Raffles
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of enormous proportions. Fernand has the whole gang arrested and is reunited with his sweet fiancée Josée.
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The Desert of Pigalle
Title: The Desert of Pigalle
Character: Bill
Released: April 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
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Honey, Scare Me
Title: Honey, Scare Me
Character: Chris Craft, the American spy
Released: March 6, 1958
Type: Movie
A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams of spies. A young blonde hotel burglar will help him get out of this mess.
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The Tricyclist
Title: The Tricyclist
Character: Daniel
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
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Nathalie
Title: Nathalie
Character: Sam
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
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When a Woman Meddles
Title: When a Woman Meddles
Character: 'La Couture'
Released: November 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Quand la Femme S'en Mele (When the Woman Butts In) stars French film favorite Edwige Feuillere as a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In addition to fielding a lot of embarrassing questions, Godot also has to deal with a pesky turf war with a rival mobster. Not that the ex-husband is a paragon of virtue: he's busy trying to get even with a crooked business associate.
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The Happy Road
Title: The Happy Road
Character: MP Sgt. Morgan
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
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Let's Be Daring, Madame
Title: Let's Be Daring, Madame
Character: Edward Butterfield dit 'Eddy'
Released: June 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an embarrassing situation: the husband of one with the wife of the other? Each couple tries to get through this forced cohabitation honestly, but everything is turned upside down when two young Sunday gangsters appear. What follows is a cross-country chase through the woods, which leads the whole gang back to the house, where one of the couples manages to leave, free at last, on an old tandem, bound for... Africa!
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The Vintage
Title: The Vintage
Character: André Morel (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
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To Catch a Spy
Title: To Catch a Spy
Character: Kalpannen
Released: March 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
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Le colonel est de la revue
Title: Le colonel est de la revue
Character: Jess
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums.
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The Flea in the Ear
Title: The Flea in the Ear
Character: Rugby
Released: September 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a package from the hotel "Le minet galant". The package contained a pair of suspenders belonging to her husband. Her best friend, Lucienne, advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. They both send him a fake, passionate letter, written by a beautiful stranger, asking him to meet her at the "Minet Galant"! But little do they know that the hotel's simpleton bellboy is a look-alike of poor Victor-Emmanuel!
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The Lebanese Mission
Title: The Lebanese Mission
Character: Le valet
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the prospecting of an isolated region granted to him by Countess Athelstane Orloff. Their search remains fruitless until Mokhir reports the discovery of a uranium deposit, but disappears before Jean can identify the location. He goes to the Countess for help in finding Mokhir and surprises her when, due to financial difficulties, she is negotiating her concession with the Englishman Hobson, director of a rival company. Attracted by Jean, the Countess nevertheless gives him her preference and they set off together in search of Mokhir.
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Fernand cow-boy
Title: Fernand cow-boy
Character: Jim Mariane
Released: September 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Fernand has just inherited a saloon in Texas from an uncle in America. Despite his inheritance, he is considered an intruder. Soon he's the victim of a cruel plot: accused of murder, arrested and kidnapped by Indians and gangsters. A young, beautiful, pure-hearted Indian, moved by Fernand's kindness, accompanies him back to the village. She's sure to become the owner of the Texas hotel.
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Meeting in Paris
Title: Meeting in Paris
Character: Henry
Released: May 2, 1956
Type: Movie
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, to follow the young woman. She learns from both of them that they are only interested in her fortune. However, when she learns of the deception, she returns to her usual social life. She will return to him when the Marquis de Cernay has betrayed himself once and for all.
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The Best Part
Title: The Best Part
Character: Karl
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
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La Madelon
Title: La Madelon
Released: December 2, 1955
Type: Movie
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war bursts, she(it) searches for the latter.
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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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Girl on the Third Floor
Title: Girl on the Third Floor
Character: L'Américain (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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Give 'em Hell
Title: Give 'em Hell
Character: American sailor in 'Paradise' (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1955
Type: Movie
During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and adventurer Johnny Jordan is looking for a new gig. His opportunity comes in the form of a local shipping tycoon and importer Moreno who offers Johnny a job after Johnny saves Moreno from an armed mugger on the waterfront.
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The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Title: The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Character: le capitaine du bar
Released: May 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Cyprien and his friends Hector Colomb and Annette are penniless and desperate. They need someone to take an interest in them. One day, they decide to become volunteer castaways. To build their raft, they sawed down trees in the Bois de Boulogne. With the support of Caroline Grossac and her mother, they were backed by M. Grossac, a comfortable businessman with a keen sense of publicity. Launched in Saint-Tropez, the raft made only a short crossing. Nevertheless, the new privateers are acclaimed, and the wilful shipwreck business is so successful that it makes Hector and Annette rich, while Cyprien marries Mlle Grossac.
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Poison Ivy
Title: Poison Ivy
Character: Le marin-geôlier
Released: May 26, 1953
Type: Movie
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
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Deux de l'escadrille
Title: Deux de l'escadrille
Released: January 30, 1953
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane.