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The Eleventh Hour Guest
''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (French: ''L'invité de la onzième heure'') is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Maurice Cloche and starring Jean Tissier, Blanchette Brunoy and Roger Pigaut.Rège p.229 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Maurice Colasson and Georges Wakhévitch. Synopsis An inventor claims to have invented an incredible new machine which acts as a thought detector amongst other things. On the evening he unveils it to his family and intended wife, tragedy strikes and he is found dead. Cast * Jean Tissier as Christophe Berri * Roger Pigaut as Le docteur Rémi Lambert * Blanchette Brunoy as Antoinette Langeais * Junie Astor as Isabelle Bourgoin * Lily Baron as Olga * Guillaume de Sax as Thomas Bourgoin * Marcel Delaître as Monsieur Sulnac * André Fouché as Serge * René Génin as Calixte * Jean Hébey as Frédéric * Lily Mounet as Madame Sulnac * Georgette Tissier Georgette Tissier (191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Cloche
Maurice Cloche (17 June 1907, Commercy, Meuse – 23 March 1990, Bordeaux, France) was a French film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. Best known for his Oscar-winning film ''Monsieur Vincent'' (1947) he won a 1948 Special Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. ''Monsieur Vincent,'' a dramatization of the life of St. Vincent de Paul that starred Pierre Fresnay, won the Academy Award in 1947 for best foreign film. It also was honored as the best film in France that year. Mr. Cloche, whose career spanned more than a half-century, also made spy thrillers and films with religious and social themes. His best-known films include ''La Cage aux Oiseaux'' (''The Bird Cage''); ''Le Docteur Laennec,'' the story of the inventor of the stethoscope; ''Ne de Pere Inconnu'' (''Father Unknown'') and ''La Cage aux Filles (''The Girl Cage''). In 1940, Mr. Cloche founded a film society for young talent. It later became France's leading film school, the Institute of Adva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |