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L'Héroïque Monsieur Boniface
''The Heroic Monsieur Boniface'' (French: ''L'Héroïque Monsieur Boniface'') is a 1949 French comedy film directed by Maurice Labro and starring Fernandel, Andrex, Gaston Orbal and Liliane Bert.Rège p.582 It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It was followed by a 1951 sequel '' The Sleepwalker''. Synopsis Boniface, a shy window dresser, finds himself caught up in a murder case, and decides to tackle the gang leader behind the killing. They in turn kidnaps Boniface's girlfriend Irene. Cast * Fernandel as Boniface * Andrex as Charlie * Gaston Orbal as M. Simon * Charles Bouillaud as Le troisième gangster * Palmyre Levasseur as La logeuse * Julien Maffre as Le lampiste * Albert Malbert as Le bistrot * Max Révol as Le chef de gare * Francis Salabert as Le commissaire * Michel Ardan as Le deuxième gangster * Yves Deniaud as Le premier gangster * Liliane Bert Liliane Bert (1922-2015) was a Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Labro
Maurice Labro (21 September 1910 – 23 March 1987) was a French film director. Filmography * 1947 in the movies, 1947: ' * 1948 in the movies, 1948: ''Three Boys, One Girl'' * 1949 in the movies, 1949: ''The Heroic Monsieur Boniface'' * 1950 in the movies, 1950: ' * 1951 in the movies, 1951: ''The King of the Bla Bla Bla'' * 1951: ''The Sleepwalker (1951 film), The Sleepwalker'' * 1951: ''No Vacation for Mr. Mayor'' * 1952 in the movies, 1952 ''Monsieur Leguignon, Signalman'' * 1953 in the movies, 1953: ' * 1953: ''Saluti e baci'' * 1954 in the movies, 1954: ' * 1954: ' * 1954: ''Leguignon the Healer'' * 1955 in the movies, 1955: ' * 1956 in the movies, 1956: ' * 1957 in the movies, 1957: ' * 1957: ' * 1959 in the movies, 1959: ' * 1960 in the movies, 1960: ' * 1962 in the movies, 1962: ' * 1962: ' * 1963 in the movies, 1963: ' * 1963: ' * 1964 in the movies, 1964: ''Coplan Takes Risks'' * 1965: ''Code Name: Jaguar'' * 1967 in the movies, 1967: ''Casse-tête chinois pour le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and unify the vision of an artistic production. In particular, they are in charge of its overall visual appearance and how it communicates visually, stimulates moods, contrasts features, and psychologically appeals to a target audience. The art director makes decisions about visual elements, what artistic style(s) to use, and when to use motion. One of the biggest challenges art directors face is translating desired moods, messages, concepts, and underdeveloped ideas into imagery. In the brainstorming process, art directors, colleagues and clients explore ways the finished piece or scene could look. At times, the art director is responsible for solidifying the vision of the collective imagination while resolving conflicting agendas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Films
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Deniaud (actor)
Yves Hyacinthe Deniaud (December 6, 1901 – December 7, 1959) was a French comic actor and musical comedian. Born in Paris, Deniaud died of cancer in Vésinet, in 1959 the day after his birthday. Selected filmography * '' Women's Prison'' (1938) * '' People Who Travel'' (1938) * '' The Gutter'' (1938) * ''Coral Reefs'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * ''Midnight Tradition'' (1939) * '' Radio Surprises'' (1940) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' Tobias Is an Angel'' (1940) * ''False Alarm'' (1940) * '' Love Letters'' (1942) * '' The Benefactor'' (1942) * '' Goodbye Leonard'' (1943) * '' A Woman in the Night'' (1943) * ''Domino'' (1943) * ''Night Shift'' (1944) * '' Florence Is Crazy'' (1944) * ''Fantômas'' (1946) * '' The Ideal Couple'' (1946) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * '' Lessons in Conduct'' (1946) * '' Not So Stupid'' (1946) * '' Four Knaves'' (1947) * '' The Idol'' (1948) * ''The Cupboard Was Bare'' (1948) * '' Barry'' (1949) * '' The Red Signal'' (1949) * '' The Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Ardan (actor)
''From the Earth to the Moon: A Direct Route in 97 Hours, 20 Minutes'' () is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people – the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet – in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called ''Around the Moon''. The 2 modern unabridged English translations were done by Walter James Miller in 1978 and Frederick Paul Walter in 2010. Background Verne's novel was not the first literary work to recount a journey to the Moon; these include ''A True Story'', by Lucian (second century AD), Francis Godwin's ''The Man in the Moone'' (1638), the ''Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon'' (1657) by Cyrano de Bergerac, John Wilkins's novel ''The Discovery of a World in the Moone'' of 1638, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Salabert (actor)
Francis Salabert (born François-Joseph-Charles Salabert, 27 July 1884 – 28 December 1946) was an innovative and influential French music publisher, who was the head of Éditions Salabert in the first half of the twentieth century. Biography He was born François-Joseph-Charles Salabert in Paris. His father, Edouard Salabert (1838-1903), started the publishing business Éditions Salabert in the rue de la Victoire in 1878, initially to publish martial music, and acquired the rights to the marches of John Philip Sousa. However, Edouard became incapacitated through illness, and in 1901 Francis took over running the company at the age of 16. In 1908 he moved the business to rue Chauchat, and began expanding it to include the repertoires of composers and writers of light music, including Henri Christiné, Reynaldo Hahn, Aristide Bruant, Maurice Yvain, Vincent Scotto, Georges Van Parys, and, later, Charles Trenet. For Christiné's successful operetta ''Phi-Phi'' in 1919, Salaber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Révol
Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1971–2004), a western lowland gorilla at the Johannesburg Zoo who was shot by a criminal in 1997 Brands and enterprises * Australian Max Beer * Max Hamburgers, a fast-food corporation * MAX Index, a Hungarian domestic government bond index * Max Fashion, an Indian clothing brand Computing * MAX (operating system), a Spanish-language Linux version * Max (software), a music programming language * MAX Machine * Multimedia Acceleration eXtensions, extensions for HP PA-RISC Films * ''Max'' (1994 film), a Canadian film by Charles Wilkinson * ''Max'' (2002 film), a film about Adolf Hitler * ''Max'' (2015 film), an American war drama film * ''Max'' (2024 film), an Indian Kannada language film by Vijay Karthikeyaa Games * '' Dancing S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Malbert
Albert Malbert (1914–1972) was a French film actor.Goble p.66 Selected filmography * '' The Crisis is Over'' (1934) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * '' Bach the Detective'' (1936) * ''Moutonnet'' (1936) * ''The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Culprit'' (1937) * ''Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * ''Rasputin'' (1938) * '' The Fatted Calf'' (1939) * ''Threats'' (1940) * '' The Last of the Six'' (1941) * ''The Man Who Played with Fire'' (1942) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * ''Love Marriage A love marriage is one which is driven solely by the couple, with or without consent of their parents, as opposed to arranged marriage. While there is no clear definition of love marriage, the term was in common use globally during the Victorian ...'' (1942) * '' Private Life'' (1942) * '' Le Corbeau'' (1943) * '' The Stairs Without End '' (1943) * '' Sowing the Wind'' (1944) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * '' Eternal Conflict'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Maffre
Julien may refer to: People * Julien (given name) * Julien (surname) Music * ''Julien'' (opera), a 1913 poème lyrique by Gustave Charpentier * ''Julien'' (album), by Dalida, 1973 * "Julien" (song), by Carly Rae Jepsen, 2019 Places United States * Julien's Auctions, an auction house in Los Angeles, California * Julien's Restorator (ca.1793-1823), a restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts * Julien Hall (Boston), a building built in 1825 in Boston, Massachusetts * Brasserie Julien, an American restaurant in New York City Elsewhere * Julien Day School, a co-educational primary, secondary and senior secondary school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India * Julien Inc., a Canadian stainless steel fabrication company * Camp Julien, the main base for the Canadian contingent of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, Afghanistan * Fort Julien, a fort in Egypt originally built by the Ottoman Empire and occupied by the French * Pont Julien, a Roman stone arch bridge over th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmyre Levasseur
Palmyre Levasseur (24 December 1888 – 4 August 1963) was a French stage and film actress.Aping p.234 Selected filmography * '' Culprit'' (1937) * '' The Fraudster'' (1937) * ''Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * ''The Postmaster's Daughter'' (1938) * '' The Mayor's Dilemma'' (1939) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * '' The Emigrant'' (1940) * ''False Alarm'' (1940) * '' Sins of Youth'' (1941) * '' The Stairs Without End '' (1943) * '' The Captain'' (1946) * '' A Friend Will Come Tonight'' (1946) * '' The Murderer is Not Guilty'' (1946) * '' Goodbye Darling'' (1946) * ''Love Around the House'' (1947) * ''The Great Maguet'' (1947) * '' After Love'' (1948) * '' Dark Sunday'' (1948) * ''Clochemerle'' (1948) * ''The Woman I Murdered'' (1948) * ''Three Investigations'' (1948) * ''The Cupboard Was Bare'' (1948) * '' Cage of Girls'' (1949) * '' Eve and the Serpent'' (1949) * '' Doctor Laennec'' (1949) * '' The Heroic Monsieur Boniface'' (1949) * '' Emile the African'' (1949) * ''Atoll K'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bouillaud
Charles Bouillaud (11 May 1904 – 12 June 1965) was a French actor. Selected filmography {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouillaud, Charles 1904 births 1965 deaths French male stage actors French male film actors French male television actors 20th-century French male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gangster
A gangster (informally gangsta) is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Most gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from ''Organized crime, mob'' and the suffix ''wikt:-ster, -ster''. Gangs provide a level of organization and resources that support much larger and more organized crime, complex criminal transactions than an individual criminal could achieve. Gangsters have been active for many years in countries around the world. Gangsters are the subject of many novels, films, television series, and video games. Usage In modern usage, the term "gang" is generally used for a criminal organization and the term "gangster" invariably describes a criminal. Much has been written on the subject of gangs, although there is no clear consensus about what constitutes a gang or what situations lead to gang formation and evolution. There is agreement that the members of a gang have a sense of common identity and belonging and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
