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Jack Ary
Jack Ary (23 November 1919 – 23 September 1974) was a French film and television actor.Arnaud p.278 Selected filmography * ''My Wife Is Formidable'' (1951) - Un pensionnaire de l'hôtel (uncredited) * ''Massacre in Lace'' (1952) - Un danseur (uncredited) * ''Monsieur Leguignon Lampiste'' (1952) - Un habitant du quartier (uncredited) * ''Allô... je t'aime'' (1952) *''The Respectful Prostitute'' (1952) - Un routier (uncredited) * ''La danseuse nue'' (1952) * ''Crazy for Love'' (1952) - Un journaliste (uncredited) * ''A Hundred Francs a Second'' (1952) - Un cheminot en grève (uncredited) * ''Le dernier Robin des Bois'' (1952) - (uncredited) * ''Le témoin de minuit'' (1953) * '' The Long Teeth'' (1953) - Le chauffeur de M. Wamter (uncredited) * ''Wonderful Mentality'' (1953) - Un gendarme * ''Le gang des pianos à bretelles'' (1953) * ''Au diable la vertu'' (1953) - Le gendarme de garde * '' The Tour of the Grand Dukes'' (1953) - Un homme au 'Balajo' (uncredited) * ''La môme ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haute-Vienne
Haute-Vienne (; oc, Nauta Vinhana, ; English: Upper Vienne) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve departments that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The prefecture and largest city in the department is Limoges, the other towns in the department each having fewer than twenty thousand inhabitants. Haute-Vienne had a population of 372,359 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 87 Haute-Vienne INSEE Geography Haute-Vienne is part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is bordered by six departments; lies to the east, |
The Most Wanted Man
The Most Wanted Man or ''Public Enemy Number One'' (french: L'ennemi public n° 1, it, Il nemico pubblico n° 1) is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Louis Seigner.Higbee & Leahy p.344 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. It was one of many co-productions between the France and Italy during the postwar era. Synopsis An ordinary American man is mistaken for a public enemy number one after he puts on a gangster's coat. Only with the help of the real gangster's girlfriend, Lola, is he able to bring the criminal to justice and clear his own name. Cast * Fernandel as Joe Calvet * Zsa Zsa Gabor as Lola la Blonde * Louis Seigner as Le directeur de la prison * David Opatoshu as Slim le Tueur * Nicole Maurey as Peggy * Alfred Adam as Le shérif * Jean Marchat as L'attorney general * Saturnin Fabre as W.W. Stone, l’avocat * Paolo Stoppa a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle And Her Gang
''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (French: ''Mademoiselle et son gang'') is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Noël Roquevert and Philippe Nicaud.Powrie & Stilwell p.143 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. Synopsis Agnès Bourdieux the daughter of a police inspector, and a successful crime novelist under a male pseudonym, becomes leader of an inept gang of criminals. Cast * Line Renaud as Agnès Bourdieux * Noël Roquevert as L'inspecteur Bourdieux * Philippe Nicaud as Paul * Jean-Jacques Delbo as O'Connor * Georgette Anys as Gravos * Paul Bonifas as La patron du bistrot * Louis Bugette as Jojo * René-Louis Lafforgue as La Fourchette * Max Elloy as Victor * Jack Ary as Émile l'Africain - le troisième truand * Henri Garcin as L'ami snob de Christian * Raymond Gérôme as L'avocat * André Dalibert as Marcel * Sylvia Lopez Sylvia Lopez (November 10, 1933 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inspector Likes A Fight
''The Inspector Likes a Fight'' (French: ''L'inspecteur aime la bagarre'') is a 1957 French crime thriller film directed by Jean Devaivre Jean Devaivre (1912–2004) was a French film director and screenwriter.Rège p.319 Additionally, he worked as a dubbing director, preparing foreign-language films for release in France. The film '' Safe Conduct'' (''Laissez-passer'', 2002) direct ... and starring Nicole Courcel, Paul Meurisse and Louis Velle. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and location shooting, on location at the city's Orly Airport. The film's sets were designed by the art director Paul-Louis Boutié. Plot Twin brothers Georges and Jacques Pile are separated after the death of their parents. The first lives in Paris, the second in Brussels. when Georges is suspected of having killed an airplane manufacturer and stolen plans for an engine, Jacques decides to take his place to protect him and will do everything to compromise the investigation. Cast * Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love In The Afternoon (1957 Film)
''Love in the Afternoon'' is a 1957 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Billy Wilder and starring Gary Cooper, Audrey Hepburn and Maurice Chevalier. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1920 Claude Anet novel '' Ariane, jeune fille russe'' (''Ariane, Young Russian Girl''). The story explores the relationship between a notorious middle-aged American playboy business magnate and the 20-something daughter of a private detective hired to investigate him. The supporting cast features John McGiver and Lise Bourdin. Plot Young cello student Ariane Chavasse eavesdrops on a conversation between her father, Claude Chavasse, a widowed private detective who specializes in tracking unfaithful spouses, and his client, "Monsieur X". After Claude gives his client proof of his wife's daily trysts with American business magnate Frank Flannagan in Room 14 at the Paris Ritz, Monsieur X announces he will shoot Flannagan later that evening. Claude is nonchala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Head
''Short Head'' (French: '' Courte tête'') is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux, written by Michel Audiard and starring Fernand Gravey, Micheline Dax and Jean Richard. The film is known under the alternative title ''Photo Finish''. It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. Synopsis Two swindlers try to cheat a provincial poultry magnate by getting him to bet on a sure loser in a major horse race. Cast * Fernand Gravey as Olivier Parker, a notorious crook. posing as an equestrian coach * Micheline Dax as Lola d'Héricourt, a venturer * Jean Richard as Ferdinand Galiveau, poultry dealer and racegoer * Jacques Duby as Amédée Lucas aka fake jockey "Teddy Morton" * Darry Cowl as the receptionist at the hotel "Lutécia" * Hubert Deschamps as Le serveur 'Gay Paris' * Max Révol as the general agent for starch * Robert Murzeau as the taylor, also a racegoer * Jacques Dufilho as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meeting In Paris
''Meeting in Paris'' (French: ''Rencontre à Paris'') is a 1956 French comedy film directed by Georges Lampin and starring Robert Lamoureux, Betsy Blair and Jacques Castelot.Parish p.96 The film's sets were designed by the art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ... Jacques Colombier. Cast References Bibliography * Parish, James Robert. ''Film Actors Guide''. Scarecrow Press, 1977. External links * 1956 films 1956 comedy films 1950s French-language films French comedy films Films directed by Georges Lampin Films set in Paris 1950s French films French black-and-white films {{1950s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Of No Importance
''People of No Importance'' (french: Des gens sans importance) is a 1956 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. Set entirely among ordinary working people, it tells the story of an unhappily married long-distance lorry driver who starts an affair with a young waitress at a restaurant where he stops frequently, but tragedy intervenes. Plot Jean is a long-distance lorry driver whose usual run is from Paris, where he lives with his unsympathetic wife and children, to Bordeaux. A favourite stop is La Caravane, a roadside restaurant where he is attracted to Clo, a pretty and affectionate young woman who is estranged from her family and survives by waitressing. Anxious to be with him, she gives up her job and goes to Paris, where she finds work as a chambermaid in a sordid hotel used by prostitutes. She also finds that she is pregnant, which the hotel manager resolves by sending her for an illegal abortion. Jean meanwhile has been sacked, partly because his tachograph showed too mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je Suis Un Sentimental
''Je suis un sentimental'' is a 1955 French crime film directed by John Berry. Plot Barney Morgan is a reporter who works for a French journal. His editor-in-chief Rupert finds his lover Alice murdered. His boss is the main suspect but Barney doesn't believe his boss could possibly be a murderer. Subsequently he tries to prove the man's innocence. Barney suspects Alice's husband and gathers enough circumstantial evidence to make his point. But the widower's lawyer can prove he didn't do it neither. Barney concedes he was wrong and commences a new investigation. Digging deeper he discovers something about the journal's publisher and especially about the publisher's son Oliver. While finding the real killer and proving his guilt Barney wins the heart of beautiful Marianne. Cast *Eddie Constantine as Barney Morgan *Bella Darvi as Marianne Colas *Olivier Hussenot as Michel Gérard *Walter Chiari as Dédé la Couleuvre *Robert Lombard as Olivier de Villeterre *André Versini as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impossible Mr
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yours Truly, Blake
''Yours Truly, Blake'' (French: ''Votre dévoué Blake'') is a 1954 French comedy crime film directed by Jean Laviron and Jerome Epstein and starring Eddie Constantine, Danielle Godet and Simone Paris.Marie p.20 The film's sets were designed by Robert Clavel. Plot While spending a night out in Paris an American airline pilot gets entangled with a beautiful nightclub performer and soon finds himself under suspicion of murder. Cast * Eddie Constantine as Larry Blake - un pilote de ligne américain * Danielle Godet as Michèle Marley aka Marion Miller * Simone Paris as Elyane de Broussac * Gil Delamare as Georges * Colette Deréal as Stella * Dora Doll as Isabelle * Jacques Dynam as Gaston * Robert Dalban as L'inspecteur Tessier * Henri Cogan as Sam * Jack Ary as L'inspecteur Brevan * Marcel Charvey as Laurent * Henry Belly as L'assistant * Maurice Chevit as Un complice * Robert Hirsch as Saganoff * Bob Ingarao as Le premier complice * Palmyre Levasseur a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death On The Run (1954 Film)
''Death on the Run'' (French: ''Les deux font la paire'') is a 1954 French comedy film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Jean Richard (actor), Jean Richard, Jean-Marc Thibault and Edith Georges.Parish p.96 It is a remake of the 1936 Death on the Run (1936 film), film of the same title which Berthomieu had also directed. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Nègre. Synopsis Two struggling actors attempt to make the headlines by pretending one of them has been murdered. However, events soon get out of hand. Cast * Jean Richard (actor), Jean Richard as Achille Baluchet * Jean-Marc Thibault as Hector Trignol * Edith Georges as Myra * Fred Pasquali as Le directeur du théâtre * Maurice Biraud as L'avocat * Jacqueline Maillan as Olga * Arthur Allan as Ivan * Charles Bouillaud as Le policier #1 * Pierre Ferval as Le policier #2 * Paul Faivre as Le gardien * Robert Destain a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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