Pierre Duncan

Pierre Duncan

Born: July 1, 1910
Died: May 26, 2003
in Lisieux, Calvados, France

Movies for Pierre Duncan...

The Dangerous Mission
Title: The Dangerous Mission
Character: Jung
Released: April 22, 1975
Type: Movie
1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: M. Perdriel
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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The Purloined Letter
Title: The Purloined Letter
Character: Saury
Released: February 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Barnes
Released: October 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Title: She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
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La visite de la vieille dame
Title: La visite de la vieille dame
Character: Roby
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to the rescue but only if her old lover who had once abandoned her pregnant is killed.
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Last Known Address
Title: Last Known Address
Character: Agent at the police station (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
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Le Huguenot récalcitrant
Title: Le Huguenot récalcitrant
Character: the man with pigs
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.
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The Gardener of Argenteuil
Title: The Gardener of Argenteuil
Character: Un agent de police (uncredited)
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
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Trap for the Assassin
Title: Trap for the Assassin
Character: Le domestique de Luversan
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
This one is generally looked upon as the best version of the old-fashioned melodrama by Jules Mary.Riccardo Freda,who was mainly known for his horror movies,tried also his hand at spy thrillers in the wake of James Bond ("Coplan Ouvre Le Feu à Mexico") ,and had a penchant for old French melodramas (before "Roger la Honte" ,he redid "Les Deux Orphelines " -D.W.GRiffith's "orphans of the storm-. Georges Géret replaces Lucien Coedel and Irene Pappas takes on Maria Casarès's part of his mistress.Freda 's movie is more compact ,with a running time of 105 min,whereas Cayatte's version (1945-46) spread over two episodes with a total time exceeding 3 hours.It also benefited from the use of color .But all in all,it's the same old story.
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The Boss of Champignol
Title: The Boss of Champignol
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
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Les combinards
Title: Les combinards
Character: Le gardien de prison
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Title: The Abominable Man of Customs
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Title: Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Character: Victor
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
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The Dance
Title: The Dance
Character: le boucher
Released: February 21, 1962
Type: Movie
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.
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Auguste
Title: Auguste
Character: Orange producer (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
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A Martian in Paris
Title: A Martian in Paris
Character: An inspector (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
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L'exécution
Title: L'exécution
Character: 2nd player
Released: January 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.
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The Fenouillard Family
Title: The Fenouillard Family
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1961
Type: Movie
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Title: Port of Point-du-Jour
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
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Some Like It... Cold
Title: Some Like It... Cold
Released: February 17, 1960
Type: Movie
The old Valmorin died 200 years ago. The notary tells the family about the inheritance: the one who is terminally ill will receive the money. They all try their luck with getting ill before the other so one family member pretends to be deaf, another pretends to have a terrible back ache and so on...
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
Title: Signed, Arsène Lupin
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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The Suspects
Title: The Suspects
Character: Beefcake (non crédité)
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
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A Friend of the Family
Title: A Friend of the Family
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will soon regret not having let him commit suicide.
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Le colonel est de la revue
Title: Le colonel est de la revue
Character: Ernest
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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Life is beautiful
Title: Life is beautiful
Character: Le malabar (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique, until the day they win a house in a radio contest. The difficulties of living together and the intrusion of their parents-in-law lead to a falling out.
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Hello Smile!
Title: Hello Smile!
Character: un complice de Bonoeil
Released: February 29, 1956
Type: Movie
A small European Kingdom wants to make a frowning Princess smile for the upcoming Royal photo to be done. A mischievous Prime Minister goes to Paris to kidnap three famous comics to force them to do an act to make the Princess smile. However, the King is not aware of this scheme... especially that this evil minister has to face a "fasting strike" by the prisoners and force them to surrender by telling a recipe of "Coq au Vin" by the radio...
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Le videur de l'Escurial (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
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Stain on the Snow
Title: Stain on the Snow
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.
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Good Lord Without Confession
Title: Good Lord Without Confession
Character: Petit Rôle
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
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The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Title: The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Released: May 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and forced to work in cabarets, where his father, his fiancée and the Baroness, not to mention the Curé, come looking for him. All ends well.
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Femmes de Paris
Title: Femmes de Paris
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at the Ruban Bleu cabaret, if her lover hasn't joined her by midnight. Intrigued, the professor decides to go and prevent the unfortunate woman from committing suicide. One of his students, who earns her living as an understudy in a knife act, helps him in his investigation, while the school principal and a policeman suspect him of being a prankster or even of selling drugs. For the scientist, it's an opportunity to discover a world of music-hall that he'd never known before: "I thought I knew the sky chart by heart, but there's one planet that was totally unknown to me: Earth. I'll be back!
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Un caprice de Caroline chérie
Title: Un caprice de Caroline chérie
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.
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She and Me
Title: She and Me
Character: Un gendarme (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1952
Type: Movie
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
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Run Away Mr. Perle
Title: Run Away Mr. Perle
Character: Le typographe (uncredited)
Released: December 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to the hero to ask him to come and take possession of an inheritance. In Paris, Perle meets a pretty adventuress.
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Love Is Not a Sin
Title: Love Is Not a Sin
Character: Un déménageur
Released: June 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Independence of Women. Unaware of each other until then, a cold war begins between the two parties. An attempt at conciliation fails then, after many adventures, love triumphs.
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Le Costaud des Batignolles
Title: Le Costaud des Batignolles
Character: The butcher at the fair
Released: April 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a woman who, when he kisses her, suddenly endows him with prodigious strength.
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Young Love
Title: Young Love
Character: A stallholder (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
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Bibi Fricotin
Title: Bibi Fricotin
Character: Un déménageur
Released: April 11, 1951
Type: Movie
To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the seer Fatma, goes through a thousand funny or comical adventures, thanks to multiple means of transport, ranging from the bicycle to the helicopter. Despite the pitfalls sown in her path by the young girl's uncle and aunt, the Tartazans, the inheritance will be found with a museum curator.
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Dr. Knock
Title: Dr. Knock
Character: Le livreur
Released: March 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital.
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Dear Caroline
Title: Dear Caroline
Character: Un voisin de Cathy
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
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The Man Who Returns from Afar
Title: The Man Who Returns from Afar
Released: April 7, 1950
Type: Movie
A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had only passed out, but when he regained consciousness, he became amnesiac. When she sees him again, the woman who loved him takes him for a ghost.
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Round of Hours
Title: Round of Hours
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A singer who has become voiceless is forced to leave his wife and children. He will become famous again as a clown.
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Strange Tales
Title: Strange Tales
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
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Night Round
Title: Night Round
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
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Marlène
Title: Marlène
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
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White Paws
Title: White Paws
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1949
Type: Movie
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
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The Cupboard Was Bare
Title: The Cupboard Was Bare
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
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Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
Title: Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
Released: April 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabeth 's sister, to save the situation, claims that Simon is actually in love with her and came to see her. They have to get engaged and Simon breaks up with his lover. But Elisabeth is not prepared to accept it, and she becomes the head of a gang of "drivers" in order to kidnap her husband. Famous Vidocq intervenes.
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Title: The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Released: March 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
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Silence Is Golden
Title: Silence Is Golden
Character: Le vizir (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
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Mystery Tour
Title: Mystery Tour
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, that he hasn't bothered to plan any kind of itinerary. As a result, they end up in completely preposterous situations, of course. Voyage surprise!
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The Village of Wrath
Title: The Village of Wrath
Character: A brother Archangias
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens.
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Master Love
Title: Master Love
Released: July 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects by the lord's daughter, captain of a troop of girls, and by a wise and determined sportsman who does not hesitate, for the occasion, to become a jockey. Master Love wins the race, Ribero is confused, a few weddings are celebrated.
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Christine se marie
Title: Christine se marie
Released: June 30, 1946
Type: Movie
In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.
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Angel and Sinner
Title: Angel and Sinner
Released: October 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.