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Les Aventures Des Pieds Nickeles
''Les aventures des Pieds-Nickelés'' is a 1948 French film directed by Marcel Aboulker. Synopsis Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals. Cast * Rellys: Croquignol * Robert Dhéry: Filochard * Maurice Baquet: Ribouldingue * Fred Pasquali: Sherlock Coco * Luc Andrieux: Hector * Colette Brosset: Irène * Claire Gérard: the princess * Fernand Gilbert: Bébert * Lucien Hector: the brigadier * André Numès Fils: a guard * Christian Duvaleix: a gangster * Roger Saget: a gangster * Gérard Séty * Jean Le Poulain Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director. He attended the cours Simon in P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Aboulker
Marcel Aboulker (1 January 1905 in Algiers – 7 September 1952 in Garches) was a French Algerian screenwriter and film director. Aboulker built up a successful career from the late 1940s directing comedy films before his death from illness at the age of 47. Selected filmography * ''Radio Surprises'' (1940) * '' Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés'' (1948) * '' Le trésor des Pieds-Nickelés'' (1950) * ''The Girl from Maxim's'' (1950) * ''Women Are Angels ''Women Are Angels'' (French: ''Les femmes sont des anges'') is a 1952 French comedy film directed by Marcel Aboulker and starring Viviane Romance, Jeanne Fusier-Gir and André Gabriello.Rège p.2 Cast * Viviane Romance as Edmée Clotier * Jeanne ...'' (1952) Bibliography * Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. External links * 1905 births 1952 deaths French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French film directors People from Algiers 20th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Saget
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940s French Films
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French Black-and-white Films
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1948 Comedy Films
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French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live-action Films Based On Comics
Live action (or live-action) is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation. Some works combine live-action with animation to create a live-action animated film. Live-action is used to define film, video games or similar visual media. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, live action " nvolvesreal people or animals, not models, or images that are drawn, or produced by computer." Overview As the normal process of making visual media involves live-action, the term itself is usually superfluous. However, it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, such as when the work is adapted from a video game, or from an animated cartoon, such as ''Scooby-Doo'', ''The Flintstones'', '' 101 Dalmatians'' films, or ''The Tick'' television program. The phrase "live-action" also occurs within an animation context to refer to non-animated characters: in a live-action/animated film such as ''Space Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On French Comics
This is a list of films based on French-language comics. It includes films that are adaptations of Francophone comics, and those films whose characters originated in those comics. Films Series with more than three entries *Based on ''Asterix'': # ''Asterix the Gaul'' (1967, Animation) # ''Asterix and Cleopatra'' (1968, Animation) # ''The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'' (1976, Animation) # ''Asterix Versus Caesar'' (1985, Animation) # '' Asterix in Britain'' (1986, Animation) # ''Asterix and the Big Fight'' (1989, Animation) # ''Asterix Conquers America ''Asterix Conquers America'' (in France as ''Astérix et les Indiens''; in Germany as ''Asterix in Amerika'') is a 1994 German animated film, directed by , and co-produced by Hahn and . The film is a loose adaptation of the ''Asterix'' graphic no ...'' (1994, Animation) # ''Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar'' (1999, Live-Action) # ''Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra'' (2002, Live-Action) # ''Asterix and the Vikings'' (2006, Animati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Films
The year 1948 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1948 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 3 – The Supreme Court of the United States decide in ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'' holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. * Laurence Olivier's ''Hamlet'' becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture. Awards Top ten money making stars Notable films released in 1948 United States unless stated # *''3 Godfathers'', starring John Wayne A *''Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'', starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello *''Act of Violence'', starring Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh *''Adventures of Don Juan'', starring Errol Flynn *''Albuquerque'', starring Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton *''The Amazing Mr. X'', starring T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Le Poulain
Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director. He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was then recruited by Jean Vilar at the Théâtre national populaire and in 1952 he appeared with Gérard Philipe in '' The Prince of Homburg'' by Heinrich von Kleist at the théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He began as an actor both in theatre and cinema in 1947 and often appeared on the regular theatre show of the French television ''Au théâtre ce soir'' created in 1966. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1978, where he became sociétaire in 1980, then General administrator from septembre 1986 until his death, where he portrayed Monsieur Jourdain in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière. Theatre Actor *1947: ''Un amour comme le nôtre'' by Guy Verdot, *1949: ''L'Habit vert'' by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers, direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Séty
Gérard Séty (13 December 1922 – 1 February 1998) was a French actor. Partial filmography *''The Temptation of Barbizon'' (1946) - Le chauffeur (uncredited) *'' Night Warning'' (1946) - Un pilote américain (uncredited) *''Patrie'' (1946) *''Les aventures des Pieds-Nickelés'' (1948) *''Mission in Tangier'' (1949) - Un client du cabaret *''Menace de mort'' (1950) - Jean *''Le trésor des Pieds-Nickelés'' (1950) - Le capitaine *''Nuits de Paris'' (1951) *'' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1953) - Le chambellan *'' Act of Love'' (1953) - (uncredited) *''The Red and the Black'' (1954) - Le lieutenant Liéven *''Pas de souris dans le business'' (1955) - Maurice Trupeau *''Lady Chatterley's Lover'' (1955) - Michaelis *''Meeting in Paris'' (1956) - Le sculpteur *''Miss Catastrophe'' (1957) - Mathias - l'escroc *''Les Espions'' (1957) - Le docteur Malic *''Maigret Sets a Trap'' (1958) - Georges "Jojo" Vacher *''Montparnasse 19'' (1958) - Léopold Zborowsky *''Le travail c'est la li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Duvaleix
Christian Duvaleix (1923–1979) was a French stage and film actor. He was born in Tunis which was then part of French Tunisia, the son of Albert Duvaleix. He was a character actor appearing in a number of supporting roles. He was one of the members of the acting troupe Branquignols.Rège p.324 Selected filmography * ''Les aventures des pieds nickeles'' (1948) * '' Doctor Laennec'' (1949) * '' Branquignol'' (1949) * ''The Cupid Club'' (1949) * ''We Will All Go to Paris'' (1950) * ''The King of the Bla Bla Bla'' (1951) * '' No Vacation for Mr. Mayor'' (1951) * ''Saluti e baci'' (1953) * ''The Tour of the Grand Dukes'' (1953) * ''Au diable la vertu'' (1954) * ''The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne'' (1954) * ''Hello Smile !'' (1956) * ''Love in Jamaica'' (1957) * ''Comme un cheveu sur la soupe'' (1957) * '' Life Together'' (1958) * ''La Tour, prends garde !'' (1958) * ''La Belle Américaine'' (1961) * ''Isadora'' (1968) * '' Le Plumard en folie'' (1974) * ''Un linceul n'a pas de poc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
