''La Grande Meute'' is a 1945 French film directed by
Jean de Limur
Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime – 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include '' La Garçonne'' (1936) and '' The Letter'' (1929). A French army officer and a designer, h ...
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The title refers to a pack of dogs inherited by Côme de Lambrefaut through the family mansion on the death of his father. Everything else apart from the 110 hunting dogs has been mortgaged. He marries Agnès de Charençay, who shares his enthusiasm for the hunt, but this leads to the death of their son and hopes of descendants. Agnès divorces and marries a man whose wealth helps her to humiliate Côme, by buying his debts, slowly acquiring everything. In September 1939, the house is destroyed by gunfire and the dogs all escape.
The film recorded admissions in France of 1,754,414.French box office for 1945 at Box Office Story
Cast
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Jean Brochard
Jean Brochard (12 March 1893 – 17 June 1972) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1933 and 1966.
Selected filmography
* '' A Man's Neck'' (1933) - Petit rôle (uncredited)
* ''Boubouroche'' (1933)
* ''La ...
: Maître Marvault
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Aimé Clariond
Aimé Clariond (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1959) was a French stage and film actor.
Clariond was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, France and died in Paris.
Selected filmography
* ''The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) - Ivan Karamazoff
* '' Amourous ...
: Martin du Bocage
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Suzanne Dantès
Suzanne Dantès (1888–1958) was a French stage and film actress.Abecassis p.96
Selected filmography
* ''The Courier of Lyon'' (1923)
* ''Black and White'' (1931)
* '' A Happy Man'' (1932)
* '' Extenuating Circumstances'' (1939)
* '' Miquette' ...
: La marquise de Badoul
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Jean Dasté
Jean Dasté, born Jean Georges Gustave Dasté, (18 September 1904 in Paris, France – 15 October 1994 in Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, Loire, France)Guy Decomble: Me Frouas
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Jacques Dumesnil
Jacques Dumesnil (born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly; November 9, 1903 – May 8, 1998) was a French film and television actor.
Early life
Jacques Dumesnil was born as Marie Émile Eugène André Joly on November 9, 1903 in Paris, France ...
: Côme de Lambrefaut
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Camille Guérini
Camille Guérini (1900–1963) was a French film and television actor.Biggs p.158
Selected filmography
* ''La Chanson du souvenir'' (1937) - Veit, l'ordonnance
* '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) - d'Aubigny
* ''Les ailes blanches'' (1943) - (uncredited ...
: La Ramée
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Julienne Paroli
Julienne Paroli (1 August 1882 – 26 September 1959) was a French film actress.Buache p.164
Selected filmography
* ''Montmartre'' (1931) - Mme Esther (uncredited)
* ''Women's Club
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: Sylvie
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Jacqueline Porel
Jacqueline Porel (1918–2012) was a French stage and film actress.Edwards p.107 She was also a voice actor, dubbing foreign films for release in French-speaking markets. She was married to the actor Gérard Landry.
Selected filmography
* '' Le h ...
: Agnès de Charançay
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Maurice Schutz
Maurice Schutz (4 August 1866 – 22 March 1955) was a French film actor.
He starred in some 91 films between 1918 and 1952.
Selected filmography
* ''Quatre-vingt-treize'' (1920)
* '' Au-delà des lois humaines'' (1920)
* ''The Three Masks'' ...
: Patrice de Lambrefaut
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Paul Villé
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Paul Barge
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Frédéric Mariotti
Frédéric Mariotti (1 April 1883 – 22 February 1971) was a French stage and film actor whose career spanned more than four decades through the early silent film era into the early 1950s.
Biography
Frédéric Mariotti was born in Marseille an ...
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