''The Fraudster'' (French: ''Le fraudeur'') is a 1937 French

crime In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a State (polity), state or other authority. The term ''crime'' does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition,Farmer, Lindsay: "Crime, definit ...

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directed by Léopold Simons and starring

Félicien Tramel Félicien Tramel, often known simply as Tramel, (1880–1948) was a French film actor.Goble p.113 Selected filmography * '' The Crystal Submarine'' (1927) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1933) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * ''The Inevitable Mo ...

Ginette Leclerc Ginette Leclerc (born Geneviève Lucie Menut; February 9, 1912 – January 2, 1992) was a French film actress. She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1932 and 1978. Her last TV appearance was in 1981. She was born in Ile-de-France, France ...

and

Robert Lynen Robert Lynen (24 May 1920 in Nermier, France – 1 April 1944 in Karlsruhe, Germany) was a French actor. A child star of French cinema, he joined the French Resistance during his country's occupation during World War II, was arrested and deported ...

.Bessy & Chirat p.214 The film's sets were designed by the

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Émile Duquesne.

Synopsis

Florimond, a smuggler is having difficulty with a consignment of goods. He gets accomplice and mistress Viviane to seduce Théo a naive

peasant A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasants ...

boy she encounters in order to rope him into their scheme.

Cast

as Florimond *

as Viviane * Léopold Simons as Alphonse *

as Théo *

Jacques Varennes Jacques Varennes (6 September 1894 – 8 November 1958) was a French film actor who appeared in around seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1938 historical film '' The Patriot''.Waldman p.156 Selected filmography * ...

as Jacques *

Line Dariel Line Dariel (1898–1956) was a Belgian-born French singer and actress.Goble p.429 Selected filmography * '' The Fraudster'' (1937) * '' Le mystère du 421'' (1938) * ''The Martyr of Bougival'' (1949) * ''Emile the African ''Emile the African' ...

as Zulma *

Palmyre Levasseur Palmyre Levasseur (24 December 1888 – 4 August 1963) was a French stage actor, stage and film actress.Aping p.234 Selected filmography * ''Culprit (1937 film), Culprit'' (1937) * ''Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * ''The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * ' ...

as Mélanie * Danielle Lorek as Julia * Cardon as Michel * Daudelin as Prosper

References

Bibliography

* Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2''. Pygmalion, 1986. * Crisp, Colin. ''Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939''. Indiana University Press, 2002. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1937 films French crime films 1937 crime films 1930s French-language films French black-and-white films 1930s French films French films based on plays {{1930s-France-film-stub