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Spotlight On A Murderer
''Spotlight on a Murderer'' (french: Pleins feux sur l'assassin ) is a 1961 French psychodrama/murder-mystery film directed by Georges Franju. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Arrow Films in August 2017 in the UK and USA regions in an open-matte 1.37:1 transfer by Gaumont of the film's original 1.66:1 aspect ratio. Cast * Pierre Brasseur - Comte Hervé de Kerloguen * Pascale Audret - Jeanne Benoist-Sainval * Marianne Koch - Edwige * Jean-Louis Trintignant - Jean-Marie de Kerloguen * Dany Saval - Micheline * Jean Babilée - Christian de Kerloguen * Georges Rollin - Claude Benoist-Sainval * Gérard Buhr - Henri * Maryse Martin - Marthe * Serge Marquand - Yvan * Lucien Raimbourg - Julien * Robert Vattier Robert Vattier (2 October 1906 – 9 December 1982) was a French actor. He was the father of the comedic actress Bérangère Vattier. Selected filmography * '' Marius'' (1931) - Albert Brun * '' Fanny'' (1932) - Albert Brun * ''Vers l'abîme ... - Le notaire Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Franju
Georges Franju (; 12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker. He was born in Fougères, Ille-et-Vilaine. Biography Early life Before working in French cinema, Franju held several different jobs. These included working for an insurance company and a noodle factory. He served briefly in the military in Algeria and was discharged in 1932. Upon his return, he studied to become a set designer and later created backdrops for music halls including Casino de Paris and the Folies Bergère. In the mid-thirties, Franju and Henri Langlois met through Franju's twin brother Jacques Franju.Ince, 2005. p.2 As well as creating the 16 mm short film ''Le Métro'', Langlois and Franju also started a short-lived film magazine and created a film club called ''Le Cercle du Cinema'' with 500 francs he borrowed from Langlois' parents. The club showed silent films from their own collections followed by an informal debate about them amongst members. From ''Le Cercle du Cinema'', Franju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur (22 December 1905 – 16 August 1972), born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor. Biography The son of actors Georges Espinasse and Germaine Brasseur, the latter a cousin of Albert Brasseur; his grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name ''Brasseur'' was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is best remembered for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in ''Les Enfants du Paradis'' (''Children of Paradise'', 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film '' Les Yeux sans visage'' (''Eyes Without a Face'', 1960) co-starring Alida Valli. On 30 May 1927, he performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio ''Oedipus Rex. Honours Brasseur was made ''Chevalier'' (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1966. The following year, he was made ''Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascale Audret
Pascale Audret (12 October 1935, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 17 July 2000) was a French actress who was most active during the 1950s through the 1960s. Career While she starred in over 25 films between 1955 and 1968, her success never crossed over internationally. Her career in film, television, stage and music stayed in France. One of her most high-profile films came when she starred opposite Orson Welles in the 1961 film '' La Fayette''. The following year she starred in ''Give Me Ten Desperate Men'', which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. Personal life Audret was born as Pascale Aiguionne Louise Jacqueline Marie Auffray to Henry Auffray, an industrialist, and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran, a musician, second cousin of the French author François Mauriac (respectively by their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother). Her brother is singer Hugues Aufray. Audret was married twice, first to actor Roger Coggio and later to music producer Francis Dreyf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marianne Koch
Marianne Koch (; born 19 August 1931) is a German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician. Career Between 1950 and 1971, Koch appeared in more than 65 films. She had numerous leading roles in the German cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1954 American thriller '' Night People'', she appeared in a supporting role alongside Gregory Peck. Koch also had major roles in the Hollywood films ''Four Girls in Town'' and ''Interlude'', both released in 1957. She remains perhaps best-known internationally for Sergio Leone's 1964 production ''A Fistful of Dollars'', which showcased her with Clint Eastwood as a civilian tormented by ruthless local gangsters, torn between her husband and child and the villains. In Germany, she was probably best-known for her many years of participation as one of the regular panelists in the highly popular TV game show ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (; 11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke. He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in '' And God Created Woman'' (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in ''A Man and a Woman'' (1966), and '' The Great Silence'' (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in '' The Man Who Lies'' and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's ''Z''. Trintignant's other notable films include, '' My Night at Maud's'' (1969), '' The Conformist'' (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dany Saval
Dany Saval (born Danielle Nadine Suzanne Savalle; 5 January 1942) is a French former actress. Her career flourished during the 1950s and 1960s. Best known in America as one of a trio of airline stewardesses being shuffled around by Tony Curtis and Jerry Lewis in the slapstick comedy '' Boeing Boeing'', in which she played alongside Thelma Ritter, Christiane Schmidtmer, and Suzanna Leigh. Dany Saval retired from the film and entertainment business in the late 1980s. She has a daughter named Stephanie Jarre (daughter of Maurice Jarre, her first husband), and currently resides in Paris with her fourth husband, Michel Drucker Michel Drucker, CQ (born 12 September 1942 in Vire) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long on various shows and different networks, both public and private, that he once said that some people joked that h .... Selected filmography External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Saval, Dany 1942 births Living people Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Babilée
Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n); 3 February 1923 – 30 January 2014) was a prominent France, French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century. He is considered to have been one of modern ballet's greatest performers, and the first French dancer to gain international acclaim. Babilée has been called the "''enfant terrible'' of dance." Born in Paris in 1923, the son of a doctor, Babilée studied at the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris, Paris Opéra Ballet School from 1936 to 1940.Patrick Bensard , Alliance Française USA, accessed March 1, 2011 ''Time (magazine), Time'', April 23, 1951 His dance career was interrupted during World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Buhr
Gérard Buhr (8 May 19288 January 1988) was a French film and television actor. Selected filmography * ' (1950) * ''Quai de Grenelle'' (1950) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * '' Beware of Blondes'' (1950) - Un journaliste (uncredited) * ''Monte Carlo Baby'' (1951) * ''The Straw Lover'' (1951) - Gaston's employées * ''Maître après Dieu'' (1951) - L'officier allemand * ''The passer-through-walls'' (1951) - (uncredited) * ''Paris Vice Squad'' (1951) - (uncredited) * ''Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande'' (1951) * '' Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois'' (1951) - (uncredited) * ''Les Petites Cardinal'' (1951) * ''Shadow and Light'' (1951) - Le garçon de café (uncredited) * ' (1951) - Presder * ''Atoll K'' (1951) - Une sentinelle (uncredited) * ''The Cape of Hope'' (1951) * ''Nous irons à Monte Carlo'' (1951) * ''Jocelyn'' (1952) * ''Fanfan la Tulipe'' (1952) - Un soldat * ''Le Chemin de Damas'' (1952) * ''My Husband Is Marvelous'' (1952) * '' Follow That Man'' (1953) - Le jeune au f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryse Martin
Maryse Martin (1906–1984) was a French singer, film and television actress.Pallister & Hottell p.77 Selected filmography * ''Les Casse-pieds'' (1948) * ''We Will All Go to Paris'' (1950) – Maman Terrine * ''Musique en tête'' (1951) – La paysanne * '' Paris Still Sings'' (1951) – La concierge * ''Love Is Not a Sin'' (1952) – the concierge of the building * '' Three Women'' (1952) – La mère Boitelle * ''Le Curé de Saint-Amour'' (1952) * '' Children of Love'' (1953) – Madeleine * '' It's the Paris Life'' (1954) – Mlle Machu * '' Leguignon the Healer'' (1954) – La cliente * ''La Cage aux souris'' (1954) – Roquet * ''Casse-cou, mademoiselle!'' (1955) * '' Sophie and the Crime'' (1955) – La serveuse aux saucisses * ''Les Premiers Outrages'' (1955) – Germaine – la femme de l'aubergiste * ''On déménage le colonel'' (1955) – Mme Auguste – la fermière * '' Maid in Paris'' (1956) – Germaine * ''La Joyeuse Prison'' (1956) – Charlotte Tuboeuf * ''Les P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serge Marquand
Serge Marquand was a French actor and film producer (12 March 1930 – 4 September 2004). He died of advanced leukemia. He was the brother of Nadine Trintignant and Christian Marquand. Filmography *1959: ''Les Liaisons dangereuses'' (by Roger Vadim) - Un skieur (uncredited) *1960: '' Et mourir de plaisir'' (by Roger Vadim) - Giuseppe *1961: '' Pleins feux sur l'assassin'' (by Georges Franju) - Yvan *1961: ''La Bride sur le cou'' (by Roger Vadim) - Prince *1961: ''Les Trois Mousquetaires'' (in two parts, '' Les Ferrets de la reine'' and '' La Revanche de Milady'') (by Bernard Borderie) *1961: ''Tintin and the Golden Fleece'' (by Jean-Jacques Vierne) - Le Facteur *1961: '' Les Parisiennes'' (sketch "Ella", by Jacques Poitrenaud) - Chauffeur de taxi (segment "Ella") *1961: '' Ca c'est la vie'' (by Claude Choublier) - Le jeune employé *1963: ''Les Bricoleurs'' (by Jean Girault) - Le chasseur du professeur *1963: '' Le Vice et la vertu'' (by Roger Vadim) - Ivan *1963: '' L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Raimbourg
Lucien Raimbourg (1903–1973) was a French film, stage and television actor. He appeared in the original performance of Samuel Beckett's '' Waiting for Godot''.Blair p.421 Selected filmography * '' L'affaire est dans le sac'' (1932) - Le client myope au chapeau de curé (as Raimbourg) * '' Ciboulette'' (1933) * '' Tout chante autour de moi'' (1954) * '' Naughty Girl'' (1956) * ''He Who Must Die'' (1957) * '' Serenade of Texas'' (1958) * ''Du rififi chez les femmes'' (1959) * ''The Verdict'' (1959) * '' The Indestructible'' (1959) * ''Austerlitz'' (1960) * ''Lovers on a Tightrope'' (1960) * '' Dynamite Jack'' (1961) * '' Spotlight on a Murderer'' (1961) * ''Cartouche'' (1962) * '' Highway Pickup'' (1963) * '' A Question of Honour'' (1965) * ''An Idiot in Paris'' (1967) * '' The Scarlet Lady'' (1969) * ''Peace in the Fields ''Peace in the Fields'' (french: Paix sur les champs) is a 1970 French-language Belgian film directed by Jacques Boigelot and based on the eponymous novel b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
