''The Man with the Hispano'' (French: ''L'homme à l'Hispano'') is a 1933 French

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Jean Epstein Jean Epstein (; 25 March 1897 – 2 April 1953) was a French filmmaker, film theorist, literary critic, and novelist. Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Fall of the House of Usher'', he directe ...

and starring

Jean Murat Jean Murat (13 July 1888, in Périgueux – 5 January 1968, in Aix-en-Provence) was a French actor. He was married to the French actress Annabella. Selected filmography * ''Sex'' (1920) * ''La Galerie des monstres'' (1924), as Sveti * '' Carme ...

Marie Bell Marie Bell (23 December 1900 – 14 August 1985), born Marie-Jeanne Bellon-Downey, was a French tragedian, comic actor and stage director. She was the director of the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris from 1962 onwards, and this theatre now bear ...

and Joan Helda.Goble p.168 The title refers to a luxury

Hispano-Suiza Hispano-Suiza () is a Spanish automotive–engineering company. It was founded in 1904 by Marc Birkigt and Damian Mateu as an automobile manufacturer and eventually had several factories in Spain and France that produced luxury cars, aircraft en ...

car. It was based on a novel of the same title by Pierre Frondaie and had previously been made as a silent film '' The Man with the Hispano'' in 1926. The film's sets were designed by the

art director Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Georges Wakhévitch Georges Wakhévitch (russian: Георгий Леонидович Вахевич; Georgy Leonidovich Vakhevich; August 18, 1907 in Odessa, Russian Empire – February 11, 1984 in Paris) was a Russian-born French art director. The son of a naval ...

Cast

as Gaston Dewalter *

as Stéphane Oswill * Joan Helda as Mme Deléone *

Gaston Mauger Gaston Mauger (13 March 1878 – 18 October 1954) was a French stage and film actor. He made around forty film appearances, including the 1932 thriller '' Narcotics''.Youngkin p.465 Selected filmography * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1929) * '' Acc ...

as M. Deléone *

Louis Gauthier Louis Gauthier (12 April 1916 – 6 August 2005) was a French bicycle racing, racing cyclist. He rode in the 1947 Tour de France. He finished in second place in the 1946 Paris–Roubaix. References External links

* 1916 births 200 ...

as Maître Montnormand *

Blanche Beaume Blanche may refer to: People *Blanche (singer), stage name of Belgian singer and songwriter Ellie Delvaux * Blanche (given name) * Blanche (surname) Places Australia * Blanche Harbor (South Australia), a bay on the east coast of Eyre Peninsula * ...

as La gouvernante *

George Grossmith Jr. George Grossmith Jr. (11 May 1874 – 6 June 1935) was an English actor, theatre producer and Actor-manager, manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies. Grossmith was also a ...

as Lord Oswill

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

* 1933 films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Jean Epstein 1933 drama films French drama films Films based on French novels Remakes of French films Sound film remakes of silent films French black-and-white films 1930s French films {{1930s-France-film-stub