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Roger La Honte (novel)
''Roger la Honte'' is an 1886 novel by the French writer Jules Mary. Its melodramatic plot takes place around the time of the Franco-Prussian War. It is his best known work. In 1887-1889 he published a sequel '' The Revenge of Roger la Honte'' which was released in two parts. Robert Williams Buchanan produced a play derived from the work in 1888, retitled "Jean the Disgraced" and premiered at the Elephant and Castle Theater. Adaptations The novel has been turned into films on five separate occasions.Goble p.311 * ''Roger la Honte'' (1913 film), a French silent film directed by Adrien Caillard * ''Roger la Honte'' (1922 film), a French silent film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli * ''Roger la Honte'' (1933 film), a French film directed by Gaston Roudès * ''Roger la Honte'' (1946 film), a French film adaptation directed by André Cayatte * ''Trap for the Assassin'', a 1966 French-Italian film directed by Riccardo Freda Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Mary
Jules Mary (March 20, 1851 – July 27, 1922) was a French novelist. His melodramas were traditionally popular subjects for adaptation by filmmakers, and his best-known work '' Roger la Honte'' has been made into films five times.Goble p.311 Selected works * '' Roger la Honte'' (1886) * ''La Pocharde'' (1898) Filmography *'' Roger la Honte'', directed by (1913, short film, based on the novel ''Roger la Honte'') *''The Man of Shame'', directed by Harry Myers (1915, based on the novel ''Roger la Honte'') *''Blessée au coeur'' (1917, based on the novel ''Blessée au coeur'') *''Les Feuilles tombent'', directed by Georges Monca (1917, based on the novel ''Les Feuilles tombent'') *''La Pocharde'', directed by Henri Étiévant (1921, based on the novel ''La Pocharde'') *''Víctima del odio'', directed by José Buchs (Spain, 1921, based on the novel ''Roger la Honte'') *''La Fille sauvage'', directed by Henri Étiévant (1922, based on the novel ''La Fille sauvage'') *'' Roger la Hont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger La Honte (1933 Film)
''Roger la Honte'' is a 1933 French historical drama film directed by Gaston Roudès and starring Constant Rémy, Germaine Rouer and France Dhélia. It is an adaptation of the 1886 novel of the same name by Jules Mary.Goble p.311 The film's sets were designed by the art director Claude Bouxin. Cast * Constant Rémy as Roger Laroque * Germaine Rouer as Henriette Laroque * France Dhélia as Julia de Noirville * Marcelle Monthil as Victoire * Olympe Bradna as Suzanne Laroque * Samson Fainsilber as Lucien de Noirville * Paul Escoffier as Le juge d'instruction * Édouard Delmont as L'inspecteur * Marcel Maupi Marcel Maupi, stage name of Marcel Louis Alexandre Barberin or Maupi, (6 November 1881, Marseille – 4 January 1949, Antibes) was a French actor. Selected filmography * ''Dance Hall'' (1931) * '' Marius'' (1931) * '' Fanny'' (1932) * '' The Iro ... as L'inspecteur * Raymond Narlay as Le président des assises * Georges Mauloy as Le commissaire a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels Set In France
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1886 French Novels
Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. * February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riccardo Freda
Riccardo Freda (24 February 1909 – 20 December 1999) was an Italian film director. He worked in a variety of genres, including sword-and-sandal, horror film, horror, ''giallo'' and spy films. Freda began directing ''I Vampiri'' in 1956. The film became the first Italian sound film, sound horror film production. Biography Riccardo Freda was born in 1909 in Alexandria, Egypt to Italian parents. Freda attended school in Milan where he took art classes at the Centro Sperimantale. After school he took on work as a sculptor and art critic. Film career Freda first began working in the film industry in 1937 and directed his first film ''Don Cesare di Bazan'' in 1942. Freda began directing ''I Vampiri''. ''I Vampiri'' was the first Italian horror film of the sound era, following the lone silent horror film ''The Monster of Frankenstein (film), Il mostro di Frankenstein'' (1920) Despite being the first, a wave of Italian horror productions did not follow until Mario Bava's film ''Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trap For The Assassin
''Trap for the Assassin'' (french: Roger la Honte) is a 1966 film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Georges Géret, Irene Papas and Jean-Pierre Marielle. It is an adaptation of the 1886 novel ''Roger la Honte'' by Jules Mary. Cast * Georges Géret as Roger Laroque * Irene Papas as Julia de Noirville * Jean-Pierre Marielle as Lucien de Noirville * Jean Topart as Luversan * Sabine Sun as Victoire * Gabriele Tinti as Raymond de Noirville * Germaine Delbat as La mère Brun - la servante de Larouette Production ''Trap for the Assassin'' was based on '' Roger la Honte'', one of the most popular ''feuilletons'' by Jules Mary. The script for the film was adapted by Jean-Louis Bory, who was an admirer of Freda's work, having met him in 1962 in Paris. Bory claimed that he wrote the adaptation and dialogue exclusive to function with Freda's direction. According to Freda and his assistant director Yves Boisset, ''Trapped for the Assassin'' was a project Freda really cared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Cayatte
André Cayatte (3 February 1909, in Carcassonne – 6 February 1989, in Paris) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility. Cayatte began his directoral career at the German-controlled Continental Films during the French occupation. Some of Cayatte's earlier films that addressed his characteristic themes include ''Justice est faite'' (''Justice is Done''; 1950), ''Nous sommes tous des assassins'' (''We Are All Murderers''; 1952), and ''Le passage du Rhin'' ('' Tomorrow Is My Turn''; 1960). In 1963, he undertook a bold experiment in film narrative with a set of two films: ''Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale'' (''Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'') and ''Françoise ou La vie conjugale'' (''Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise''). These two films tell the same story from two different points of view. His 1973 film, '' Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu'', won the Silver Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger La Honte (1946 Film)
''Roger la Honte'' is a 1946 French historical drama film directed by André Cayatte and starring Lucien Coëdel, María Casares and Paul Bernard. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jules Mary. It was followed by a sequel ''The Revenge of Roger'' featuring many of the original cast and released the same year.Goble p.311 The film's sets were designed by the art director René Renoux. Cast * Lucien Coëdel as Roger Laroque * María Casares as Julia de Noirville * Paul Bernard as Luversan * Renée Devillers as Mme Laroque * Rellys as Tristot * Jean Tissier as Le baron de Cé * Louis Salou as Le commissaire Lacroix * André Gabriello as Pivolot * Josée Conrad as La petite Suzanne * Jean Debucourt as Monsieur de Noirville * Paulette Dubost as Victoire * Léon Walther as Le président du tribunal * Léonce Corne * Paul Demange * Bernard Hubrenne * Philippe Lemaire * Charles Lemontier * Marcel Pérès * Madeleine Suffel Madeleine Suffel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger La Honte (1922 Film)
''Roger la Honte'' is a 1922 French silent historical film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli and starring Rita Jolivet, Gabriel Signoret and Maggy Théry. It is an adaption of the novel of the same title by Jules Mary.Goble p.311 Cast * Rita Jolivet as Julia de Noirville * Gabriel Signoret as Roger Laroque * Maggy Théry as Suzanne Laroque * Eric Barclay as Roger de Noirville * Sylvie (actress) as Henriette Laroque * Régine Dumien as Suzanne, enfant * Roger Monteaux as L. de Noirville * Roger Pineau as Roger de Noirville, enfant * André Marnay as Luversan * Paul Jorge as Le caissier * Thomy Bourdelle * Henri Chomette Henri Chomette (1896–1941) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director. He was the brother of the film director René Clair. Selected filmography * '' Roger la Honte'' (1922) * '' De quoi revient les junes film''Shown in Boston in 1927, ... * Mangin * Noémi Seize References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its Metropolitan France, metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin (island), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger La Honte (1913 Film)
''Roger la Honte'' or ''A Man's Shadow'' is a 1913 French silent historical drama film directed by Adrien Caillard and starring Georges Dorival, Paul Capellani and Henri Collen. It is an adaption of the novel of the same title by Jules Mary, which has been filmed a further four times since.Goble p.311 Cast * Georges Dorival Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses *Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 1977 ... * Paul Capellani * Henri Collen * Maria Fromet References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1913 films 1910s historical drama films French historical drama films French silent feature films 1910s French-language films Films based on Roger la Honte Films set in the 19th century French black-and-white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Coronet
The Coronet Theatre was a large live music and night-club venue with a 2,600 capacity located at 28 New Kent Road in Elephant and Castle, London, England. The historic venue operated as an entertainment venue from 1879 until 2018 and to up to its closure managed to retain all of its art deco features. The site was first occupied by the Theatre Royal, built in 1872 and destroyed by fire only six years later. Renovations were initiated by Jethro Thomas Robinson after the fire, and completed by Frank Matcham, to what became the Elephant and Castle Theatre in 1879, where a very young Charlie Chaplin performed. The Theater was converted to an ABC cinema in 1928, a 3,100 seat cinema designed by Frank Matcham with a revolving steam driven organ. During the World War II, when London was being destroyed by The Blitz, the building stood strong and was often used as a shelter. In 1956, a showing of the film Blackboard Jungle gave rise to a riots by the Teddy Boy audience. After that, ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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