René Jolivet (1898–1975) was a French
screenwriter
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and
film director
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. He co-directed the 1956 adventure film ''
The Adventures of Gil Blas
''The Adventures of Gil Blas'' (French: ''Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane'', Spanish: ''Una aventura de Gil Blas'') is a 1956 French–Spanish adventure film directed by René Jolivet and Ricardo Muñoz Suay and starring Georges Marchal, B ...
''.
[Klossner p.11]
Selected filmography
* ''
Women's Prison
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Angelica
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'' (1939)
* ''
La tradition de minuit
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'' (1939)
* ''
On demande un ménage'' (1946)
* ''
The Fugitive'' (1947)
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False Identity
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'' (1947)
* ''
Night Express'' (1948)
* ''
Le sorcier du ciel'' (1949)
* ''
Thus Finishes the Night
''Thus Finishes the Night'' (French: ''Ainsi finit la nuit'') is a 1949 French drama film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Anne Vernon, Claude Dauphin and Henri Guisol.Rège p.540 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film ...
'' (1949)
* ''
La peau d'un homme'' (1951)
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L'étrange amazone'' (1953)
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Eighteen Hour Stopover
''Eighteen Hour Stopover'' (French: ''Dix-huit heures d'escale'') is a 1955 French crime film directed by René Jolivet and starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Geneviève Kervine and Georges Marchal.Rège p.54 The film's sets were designed by the art dir ...
'' (1955)
* ''
The Adventures of Gil Blas
''The Adventures of Gil Blas'' (French: ''Les Aventures de Gil Blas de Santillane'', Spanish: ''Una aventura de Gil Blas'') is a 1956 French–Spanish adventure film directed by René Jolivet and Ricardo Muñoz Suay and starring Georges Marchal, B ...
'' (1956)
* ''
A Certain Monsieur Jo
''A Certain Monsieur Jo'' (French: ''Un certain Monsieur Jo'') is a 1958 French crime film directed by René Jolivet and starring Michel Simon, Geneviève Kervine and Jacques Morel.Rège p.541
The film's sets were designed by the art director Lu ...
'' (1958)
* ''
Les mordus'' (1960)
References
Bibliography
* Crisp, Colin. ''French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 1, 1929–1939''. Indiana University Press, 2015.
* Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000''. McFarland & Company, 2002.
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1898 births
1975 deaths
French screenwriters
French film directors
People from Albertville
20th-century French screenwriters
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