''Gibraltar'' is a 1938
French thriller film
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directed by
Fedor Ozep
Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep (russian: Фёдор Алекса́ндрович О́цеп, ''Fyodor Aleksandrovich Otsep''; February 9, 1895 – June 20, 1949) was a Russian-American film director and screenwriter, born in Moscow. An important earl ...
and starring
Viviane Romance
Viviane Romance (born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns; 4 July 1912 – 25 September 1991) was a French actress.
Viviane Romance was born in Roubaix, France. She began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 19 ...
,
Roger Duchesne
Roger Duchesne (27 July 1906, Luxeuil-les-Bains, Haute-Saône – 25 December 1996) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1957, but is best remembered for playing the lead in ''Bob le flambeur'' (1956). He was the f ...
,
Abel Jacquin and
Erich von Stroheim.
It was shot at the
Joinville Studios
The Joinville Studios were a film studio in Paris which operated between 1910 and 1987. They were one of the leading French studios, with major companies such as Pathé and Gaumont making films there.
A second studio was added to the original ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
, with
location shooting
Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior.
The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for ex ...
taking place in
Gibraltar
)
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, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
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itself despite the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, link ...
being fought across the border.
[Alberca p.133] The film's sets were designed by the
art director Georges Wakhévitch. It was later remade in 1964
under the same title.
The plot concerns a British officer stationed in
Gibraltar
)
, anthem = " God Save the King"
, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
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who goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hostile agents.
Main cast
*
Viviane Romance
Viviane Romance (born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns; 4 July 1912 – 25 September 1991) was a French actress.
Viviane Romance was born in Roubaix, France. She began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 19 ...
as Mercedes
*
Roger Duchesne
Roger Duchesne (27 July 1906, Luxeuil-les-Bains, Haute-Saône – 25 December 1996) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1934 and 1957, but is best remembered for playing the lead in ''Bob le flambeur'' (1956). He was the f ...
as Robert Jackson
*
Abel Jacquin as Frank Lloyd
*
Erich von Stroheim as Marson
*
Jean Périer
Jean (Alexis) Périer (2 February 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French operatic baryton-martin and actor. Although he sang principally within the operetta repertoire, Périer did portray a number of opera roles; mostly within operas by Wolfgang ...
as Col. Wilcox
*
Yvette Lebon
Yvette Lebon (14 August 1910 – 28 July 2014) was a French actress.
Biography
Lebon studied music and art before going into acting. During World War II, she was the mistress of Jean Luchaire, a French journalist and press baron executed after ...
as Maud Wilcox
*
Paulette Pax
Paulette Pax (née Paulette Ménard born in 1887 in Russia – died in 1942 in Paris) was a French actress, theatre director and scenographer.
She co-directed the Théâtre de l'Œuvre from 1929 until her death succeeding Bella Rossellini.
The ...
as Mme. Nichols
*
André Roanne
André Roanne (born André Albert Louis Rahou; 22 September 1896, in Paris – 4 September 1959, in Cannes) was a French actor. He began his career playing in short films, and acted in 91 films in total, most notably those of Fernandel. Most of h ...
as Le Lt. Français
*
Georges Flamant as Maori
*
Odette Talazac
Odette Talazac (1883–1948) was a French film actress.Capua p.129
Talazac was the daughter of tenor Jean-Alexandre Talazac and his wife, the soprano Hélène Fauvelle. She began her career singing in music halls before turning to the theater an ...
as Angelina, Dresser
*
Madeleine Suffel
Madeleine Suffel (1899–1974) was a French film and stage actress.Palmer & Michael p.274 She played supporting roles in a number of films from the early 1930s onwards.
Selected filmography
* '' A Rare Bird'' (1935)
* '' School for Coquettes'' ( ...
as Nelly, Manicurist
See also
*''
The Sharks of Gibraltar'' (1947)
*''
Gibraltar
)
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, song = " Gibraltar Anthem"
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, map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe
, map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green
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, image_map2 = Gib ...
'' (1964)
References
Bibliography
* Julio Ponce Alberca ''Gibraltar and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39: Local, National and International Perspectives''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.
External links
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1938 films
1930s spy thriller films
French spy thriller films
1930s thriller drama films
French thriller drama films
1930s French-language films
Films directed by Fedor Ozep
French black-and-white films
Films set in the British Empire
Films set in the Mediterranean Sea
Cine-Allianz films
Films shot at Joinville Studios
1938 drama films
1930s French films
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