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Armand Mestral
Armand Mestral (born ''Armand Serge Zelikson''; 25 November 1917 - 17 September 2000) was a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1945 to 1992. Filmography References External links * 1917 births 2000 deaths French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Riviera Touch
''That Riviera Touch'' is a 1966 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. It is the second feature-length film made by the comedy duo Morecambe and Wise. The film opened at the Leicester Square Theatre in the West End of London on 24 March 1966. Plot After Eric Simpson (Eric Morecambe) nearly gives The Queen a parking ticket in London, he and Ernest Clark (Ernie Wise) decide to take a holiday in the south of France. However, when they arrive there, they become unwittingly involved in a jewel theft when the thief Le Pirate (Paul Stassino) decides to use them to smuggle some precious jewels out of the country. He sends the two Englishmen to a sinister villa and sends the beautiful Claudette ( Suzanne Lloyd), a member of his criminal gang, to keep Eric and Ernie occupied while he carries out the various stages of his plan. Confusion ensues however, as the two battle for the affections of Claudette and Eric accidentally wins a large su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 Births
Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's Desert Column. * January 10 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Seven survivors of the Ross Sea party were rescued after being stranded for several months. * January 11 – Unknown saboteurs set off the Kingsland Explosion at Kingsland (modern-day Lyndhurst, New Jersey), one of the events leading to United States involvement in WWI. * January 16 – The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. * January 22 – WWI: United States President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Germany. * January 25 ** WWI: British armed merchantman is sunk by mines off Lough Swilly (Ireland), with the loss of 354 of the 475 aboard. ** An anti- prostitution drive in San Francisco occurs, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Of Atonement (film)
''Day of Atonement'' (original French title:''Le Grand Pardon II'') is a 1992 127-minute longer sequel to film ''Le Grand pardon'', film directed by Alexandre Arcady starring Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon and Jill Clayburgh. The film also features famous American film stars Christopher Walken and Jennifer Beals. Filming locations include: Miami, Florida, United States and France. Plot Raymond Bettoun is released after 10 years in prison to come to his family in Miami, FL for his grandson Alexander's bar-mitzvah. His son, Maurice is a banker. Raymond soon finds out Maurice in laundering drug money. Raymond's nephew Roland lives in an island with his assistant Joseph. He is pulling the strings, stealing from Maurice's bank. Rolands brother Eli is planning to go away with Roland after he testify's again Maurice later on in the film. Maurice comes into contact with drug lord Pasco Meisner who wants to be part of the same mob family as him. But Maurice's plan goes horrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Misérables (1982 Film)
''Les Misérables'' is a 1982 French drama film directed by Robert Hossein. It is one of the numerous screen adaptations of the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. It was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize. Plot summary Cast * Lino Ventura as Jean Valjean * Michel Bouquet as Inspecteur Javert * Évelyne Bouix as Fantine * Christiane Jean as Cosette ** Valentine Bordelet as Cosette (child) * Jean Carmet as Thénardier * Françoise Seigner as La Thénardier * Frank David as Marius * Candice Patou as Éponine ** Agathe Ladner as Éponine (child) * Emmanuel Curtil as Gavroche * Hervé Furic as Enjolras (as Hervé Fulric) * Louis Seigner as Monseigneur Myriel * Fernand Ledoux as Gillenormand * Paul Préboist as Fauchelevent * Corinne Dacla as Azelma ** Catherine Di Rigo as Azelma (child) (as Kathleen Di Rigo) * Robin Renucci as Courfeyrac * Christian Benedetti as Combeferre (as Christian Bénédetti) * Tony Joudrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jarosław Dąbrowski (film)
''Jarosław Dąbrowski'' is a Polish historical film about Jarosław Dąbrowski. It was released in 1976. Cast * Zygmunt Malanowicz − Jarosław Dąbrowski * Małgorzata Potocka − Pelagia Dąbrowska, żona Jarosława * Aleksandr Kalagin − Tuchołko * Wiktor Awdiuszko − Władisław Ozierow * Władimir Iwaszow − Andrij Potebnia * Stanisław Niwiński − Bronisław Szwarce * Stefan Szmidt − Walery Wróblewski * Józef Nowak Józef Nowak (8 April 1925 – 16 January 1984) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1951 and 1980. Selected filmography * ''Warsaw Premiere'' (1951) * ''Drugi brzeg'' (1962) * ''Westerplatte'' ... − Bronisław Wołowski References External links * 1976 films Polish biographical films Polish historical films 1970s Polish-language films Films set in the 1860s Films set in the 1870s Films about the Paris Commune Soviet multilingual films Soviet biographical films Soviet hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Men In Town (1973 Film)
''Two Men in Town'' (french: Deux hommes dans la ville a.k.a. ''Two Against the Law'') is a 1973 Franco-Italian film directed by José Giovanni. The film was remade in 2014. Synopsis Germain Cazeneuve left the police to work as a prison trainer, teaching inmates how to live once out of jail and how to stay out. He stands guarantor when Gino Strabliggi, a printer by trade, is paroled two years before his twelve-year sentence for bank robbery expires. Germain and his family offer friendship to Gino and his wife Sophie, who has waited faithfully for ten years, until two criminals racing along a country road kill Sophie by accident. Gino gets a steady job as a printer and meets Lucy, a bank employee, who moves into his flat. On a regular visit to the police station to renew his parole, he is seen by Inspector Goitreau who originally arrested him and immediately follows him. As he stops for petrol, some old associates spot him and give him the address of their hideout. Goitreau, sus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day The Clown Cried
''The Day the Clown Cried'' is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish-French drama film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. It is based on an original screenplay by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton, from a story idea by O'Brien, with additional material from Lewis. The film was met with controversy regarding its premise and content, which features a circus clown who is imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp. Lewis repeatedly insisted that ''The Day the Clown Cried'' would never be released, but later donated an incomplete copy of the film to the Library of Congress in 2015 under the stipulation that it was not to be screened before June 2024. According to Lewis's son, there is no complete negative of the film, and outstanding copyright issues have prevented its release. Plot Helmut Doork is a washed-up German circus clown during the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. Although he was once a famous performer who toured North America and Europe with the Ringling Brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mon Oncle Benjamin
''Mon oncle Benjamin'' (''My Uncle Benjamin'') is a 1969 French film directed by Édouard Molinaro, starring Jacques Brel and Claude Jade. The film is based on a once-popular French comic novel ' by Claude Tillier (1842). The 1969 film ''Don't Grieve'', directed by the Georgian Georgi Daneliya, is also based on Tillier's novel as was Francis Bousquet's 1942 comic opera ''Mon oncle Benjamin''.Yoken, Melvin B. (1978)"Claude Tillier" ''The Old Century and the New: Essays in Honor of Charles Angoff'', pp. 228–229. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. The film was released on 28 November 1969. Plot The story is set in 1750 during the time of Louis XV. Benjamin (Jacques Brel) is a country doctor in love with the beautiful innkeeper's daughter, Manette (Claude Jade), but she refuses his advances until he produces a marriage contract. After suffering a humiliating practical joke and condemned to prison, Benjamin escapes with Manette, who realizes she prefers happiness to a mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Came To Rob Las Vegas
''They Came to Rob Las Vegas'' is a 1968 crime film directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi and starring Gary Lockwood, Elke Sommer, Lee J. Cobb, and Jack Palance. The screenplay concerns a crime outfit who plan a heist to rob a hi-tech truck containing $7 million in Las Vegas. Its Spanish title was ''Las Vegas 500 Milliones''. Filming took place in California, Nevada, and Spain. Plot Steve Skorsky has built himself a reputation in security transport for financial institutions. His security trucks are considered impregnable with armed guards and computer controlled routing. No one has ever successfully raided a Skorsky truck until, ...... They came to rob Las Vegas. Gino Vincenzo escapes from prison and plans to rob a Skorsky truck with his brother Tony in an armed assault, but Tony turns down the idea saying it needs more modern planning. Gino goes ahead anyway and he and his gang are killed in the attempt. Tony plans a new robbery, but Inspector Douglas of the Treasury is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Viscount (film)
''The Viscount'' (French: ''Le vicomte règle ses comptes'') is a 1967 crime film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Kerwin Mathews, Sylvia Sorrente and Jean Yanne. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou.Krawc p.160 It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and Spain. Warner Brothers distributed the film in Britain and America. Location shooting took place around Málaga, Sicily and Paris. Cast * Kerwin Mathews as Clint de la Roche, le Vicomte * Sylvia Sorrente as Lili Dumont * Jean Yanne as Billette * Fernando Rey as Marco Demoygne * Franco Fabrizi as Ramon * Maria Latour as Tania * Alain Saury as Vincento * Armand Mestral as Claude Peroux * Luis Dávila as Steve Heller * Álvaro de Luna as Jean * Pierre Massimi as Louis * Christian Kerville as Paul * Claude Le Lorrain * Olga Bergamonti * Pepe Martín as Manuel * Yvette Lebon as Claudia * Folco Lulli Folco Lulli (3 July 1912 – 23 May 1970) was an Italian pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sea Pirate
''The Sea Pirate'' (french: Surcouf, le tigre des sept mers, it, Surcouf, l'eroe dei sette mari, es, El tigre de los siete mares, also known as ''The Fighting Corsair'') is a 1966 French-Italian-Spanish adventure film directed by Sergio Bergonzelli and Roy Rowland. Plot Cast * Gérard Barray as Robert Surcouf * Antonella Lualdi as Margaret Carruthers * Terence Morgan as Lord Blackwood * Geneviève Casile as Marie-Catherine * Armand Mestral as el capità Hans * George Rigaud as French Admiral * Gérard Tichy as Kernan * Alberto Cevenini as Garneray * Giani Esposito as Napoleon * Fernando Sancho as Jailer * Antonio Molino Rojo as Andre Chambles * Ivano Staccioli as Decrees * Aldo Sambrell Alfredo Sánchez Brell (23 February 1931 – 10 July 2010), known as Aldo Sambrell, was a Spanish actor, director, and producer who appeared in over 150 films between 1961 and 1996. Biography Sambrell was born in Vallecas, Madrid, on 23 Februa ... as Sailor See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
