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Philippe Castelli
Philippe Castelli (8 June 1926 – 16 April 2006) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1960 and 1992. Selected filmography * ''Les Bonnes Femmes'' (1960) - Le régisseur * '' Wise Guys'' (1961) - Le portier au vernissage (uncredited) * ''Cartouche'' (1962) - Le commissaire (uncredited) * ''The Elusive Corporal'' (1962) - Le prisonnier électricien * ''À fleur de peau'' (1962) - Kleber * '' Landru'' (1963) - Un inspecteur de police * ''Les Bricoleurs'' (1963) - Le facteur * ''Carom Shots'' (1963) - Le portier du 321 (uncredited) * '' The Bread Peddler'' (1963) - Le premier policier aux ordres du préfet de police * ''Les Tontons flingueurs'' (1963) - Le tailleur * ''Une ravissante idiote'' (1964) - Le client du restaurant Lion's (uncredited) * ''Dandelions by the Roots'' (1964) - L'interne (uncredited) * ''Aimez-vous les femmes?'' (1964) - Un adepte de la secte * ''Les durs à cuire ou Comment supprimer son prochain sans perdre l'appétit'' (1964) - Le c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaville
Chaville () is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some 12 km from the centre of Paris in the south-western suburbs of the French capital. Geography Chaville is bordered by the following communes (clockwise from the north): *Sèvres *Meudon *Vélizy-Villacoublay *Viroflay *Ville-d'Avray. Roughly 44% of the territory of the commune, situated between the forest of Meudon to the south-east and the forest of Fausses-Reposes to the north-west, is wooded. History Chaville was founded in the 9th century by Inchadus, Bishop of Paris. The earliest recorded form of the name is ''Inchadi villa''. Population Transport Chaville is located on route D910 between Paris and Versailles. It is served by three railway stations and one bus line: *Gare de Chaville-Rive-Droite, on the Transilien suburban rail line from Paris-Saint-Lazare to Versailles-Rive-Droite *Gare de Chaville-Rive-Gauche, on the Transilien suburban rail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yo Yo
''Yo Yo'', original title ''Yoyo'', is a 1965 French comedy film directed by and starring Pierre Étaix. The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an equestrienne and becomes a circus clown. The film was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Yo Yo is the son of a 1920s billionaire who, although having everything he fancies and living in a cavernous old castle, is not happy, fancying the simple life of a beautiful circus actress. When the stock-exchange crashes, rendering him both poor and free, he joins the circus where his love interest is performing, and falls madly in love. They have a son who starts in the circus as a clown but later becomes a successful actor and uses his new wealth to buy back his father's castle. Cast * Pierre Étaix as Yoyo / the millionaire * Claudine Auger as Isolina * Philippe Dionnet as Yoyo as a child * Luce Klein as the equestrienne * Siam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bons Baisers De Hong Kong
''Bons Baisers de Hong Kong'' (also known as ''From Hong Kong with Love'') is a 1975 French spy comedy film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody and spin-off of the ''James Bond'' film series starring Les Charlots, with Mickey Rooney portraying the antagonist. Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell make cameos in their roles as M and Miss Moneypenny (though the characters remain unnamed). Part of the picture was filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. Besides the James Bond series, the film also parodies Hong Kong martial arts films. Synopsis The film starts with James Bond being shot and killed during in a parody of the James Bond gun barrel sequence. Queen Elizabeth II (Huguette Funfrock) is then kidnapped by a wealthy American megalomaniac (Mickey Rooney). Since their best agent is dead, the British secret services ask for help from their French counterparts, the SDECE. The Les Charlots group are tasked with hiding the queen's disappearance while the investigation co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cher Victor
''Cher Victor'' (french: Ce cher Victor) is a 1975 French comedy film directed by Robin Davis. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Victor and Anselme are two aged men who are cohabitants for practical reasons. The widower Victor permanently picks on Anselme who still always remains rather nonchalant. When they try to organise a music festival they are joined by a lady named Anne who considers herself an accomplished singer. Victor picks at her too and unlike Anselme she cannot take it. Seeing that Anselme has had it and starts to hit back. Cast * Bernard Blier as Anselme * Jacques Dufilho as Victor Lasalle * Alida Valli as Anne * Jacqueline Doyen as Micheline * Alice Reichen as Jeanne * Philippe Castelli as the nephew * Jacques Rispal Jacques Rispal (1 August 1923 – 9 February 1986) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1952 and 1986. Selected filmography * '' Crimson Curtain'' (1952) * '' A Man Named Rocca'' (1961) - (uncred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borsalino & Co
''Borsalino & Co.'' is a 1974 French crime film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Alain Delon, Riccardo Cucciolla and Daniel Ivernel. It is the sequel to the 1970 film ''Borsalino'', opening with the criminal Siffredi as he searches Marseille for the gang that murdered his friend Capella. Plot Siffredi, a prominent gangster in 1930s Marseille, learns that the murder of his associate and closest friend Capella was ordered by a new arrival in the city, Volpone. In revenge, he kills Volpone's brother by throwing him from a moving train. A gang war ensues. Volpone's men win, capturing Siffredi and putting his mistress Lola in a brothel. Siffredi is humiliated by the gang by turning him into an alcoholic wreck who is shut up in a psychiatric hospital. Rescued by the only other survivor of the gang, he escapes by boat to Italy. Left supreme in Marseille, Volpone is backed by the government of Nazi Germany and has the police in his pocket. Three years later, Siffredi has recovered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icy Breasts
''Icy Breasts'' (french: Les seins de glace, it, Esecutore oltre la legge, also known as ''Someone Is Bleeding'') is a 1974 French-Italian psychological thriller film written and directed by Georges Lautner and starring Alain Delon. It is based on Richard Matheson's 1953 novel ''Someone Is Bleeding''. Plot A French widow Peggy, played by Mireille Darc, meets a writer François Rollin, played by Claude Brasseur. After they meet, François Rollin tries to get romantically involved with Peggy. Peggy turns François down and eventually he stalks her to where she is shopping. François gets into Peggy's car while she was shopping. Peggy finds him in her car asks him to leave but he refuses. Peggy drops him off a few miles down the road. She ends up writing her number on her window. François gets on his motorcycle and shows up at her house. Peggy tells François about being divorced from her husband. When François leaves her home, he is followed by someone. He is asked to speak to Peg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Viager
''Le Viager'' is a French comedy film directed by Pierre Tchernia. It was released in 1972, adapted from a script by René Goscinny, the creator of the Asterix comics. Plot In 1930 in Paris, Dr Léon Galipeau examines 59-year-old Louis Martinet. Convinced that his patient has a maximum of two years to live, Galipeau convinces his brother Emile to use a 'viager' (life annuity) to buy Martinet's lovely country house in the fishing village of Saint-Tropez (at the time, St-Tropez was not the world renowned destination it is today). The 'viager' is a French system whereby someone buys a house from a person, repaying them by instalments until the person's death, only upon which the house finally transfers to the buyer. Thanks to Martinet's declining health, the Galipeau expect to not pay for long and get his house for cheap. Thinking Dr Galipeau is right, despite the fact that the doctor is always wrong whenever he says something (a running gag throughout the movie), Emile, under the ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy, Down There!
''Easy, Down There!'' (french: Doucement les basses, it, L'uomo di Saint-Michael) is a 1971 French-Italian comedy film starring Alain and Nathalie Delon. Plot Cast * Alain Delon as Simon Médieu * Paul Meurisse as L'évêque * Nathalie Delon as Rita * Julien Guiomar as Francisco * Paul Préboist as The old choir boy * Serge Davri as Brigadier * Carlo Nell as Gendarme * Philippe Castelli Philippe Castelli (8 June 1926 – 16 April 2006) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1960 and 1992. Selected filmography * '' Les Bonnes Femmes'' (1960) - Le régisseur * '' Wise Guys'' (1961) - Le portier au verniss ... as Grand vicaire * Serge Davri as Brigadier * André Bollet as Mickey References External links * 1971 comedy films French comedy films Films directed by Jacques Deray Films produced by Alain Delon Films scored by Claude Bolling 1970s French-language films Italian comedy films 1970s French films 1970s Italian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Promise At Dawn
''Promise at Dawn'' (french: La Promesse de l'aube) is a 1970 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Dassin's wife. It is based on the 1960 novel ''Promise at Dawn'' (french: La Promesse de l'aube) by Romain Gary and the subsequent play by Samuel A. Taylor. Plot The film follows author Romain Gary as he recalls his growing up with his Lithuanian-born mother. The two leave Vilnius, Lithuania for France, where they settle in Paris. As twenty years pass, they encounter social change, age, different convictions, poverty and the slow approach of World War II. Cast * Melina Mercouri as Nina Kacew * Assi Dayan as Romain age 25 * Didier Haudepin as Romain age 15 * François Raffoul as Romain age 9 * Despo Diamantidou as Aniela (as Despo) * Jean Martin as Igor Igorevitch * Fernand Gravey as Jean-Michel Serusier * Jacqueline Porel as Madame Mailer * Elspeth March as Fat Woman * Maria Machado as Nathalie Lissenko * Julie Dassin as Romain's Friend * René ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borsalino (film)
''Borsalino'' is a 1970 French gangster film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon and Catherine Rouvel. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2009, ''Empire'' named it No. 19 in a poll of "The 20 Greatest Gangster Movies You've Never Seen… Probably". A sequel, '' Borsalino & Co.'', was released in 1974 with Alain Delon in the leading role. The film is based on real-life gangsters Paul Carbone and François Spirito, who collaborated with Nazi Germany during the occupation of France in World War II (though this is not mentioned in the film). Plot In 1930, in Marseille, a gangster named Siffredi is released from prison and searches for his former girlfriend, Lola. He finds her with Capella, another gangster. The two men fight over her but become friendly and form a partnership, fixing horseraces and prizefights. They are contacted by Rinaldi, a lawyer who works for Marello and Poli, the two crime bosses who contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Night Of The Generals
''The Night of the Generals'' is a 1967 World War II mystery film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Sam Spiegel. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet and Philippe Noiret. The screenplay by Joseph Kessel and Paul Dehn was loosely based on the beginning of the novel of the same name by German author Hans Hellmut Kirst. The writing credits also include the line "based on an incident written by James Hadley Chase"; a subplot from Chase's 1952 novel ''The Wary Transgressor''. Gore Vidal is said to have contributed to the screenplay, but was not credited. The musical score was composed by Maurice Jarre. The film was a French-British-American international co-production. Parts of this Western-made film were shot on location in Warsaw, which at the time was behind the Iron Curtain. The last scenes of the film were shot in Munich. Plot The murder of a prostitute, who was also a German agent, in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 cau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Your Money Or Your Life (1966 Film)
''Your Money or Your Life'' (French: ''La bourse et la vie'') is a 1966 comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky and starring Fernandel, Heinz Rühmann and Jean Poiret.Monaco p.382 It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. It is a loose remake of the 1931 German film ''The Virtuous Sinner'' in which Rühmann had also appeared. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Location shooting also took place across France including Toulouse. Partial cast * Fernandel as Charles Migue * Heinz Rühmann as Henry Schmidt * Jean Poiret as Lucien Pélépan * Marilù Tolo as Violette * Jean Carmet as Le curé * André Gabriello as Pierre Robinhoude * Jacques Legras as Tapu * Claude Piéplu as Un surveillant de l'agence de Paris * Darry Cowl as Marquy * Michel Galabru as Maître Laprise * Simone Duhart as Madame le P.-d.g. * Andrex as Le chef de convoi * Krista Nell as Geneviève * Roger Legris as Dum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
