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Rome Express (1950 Film)
''Rome Express'' is a 1950 French comedy thriller film directed by Christian Stengel and starring Hélène Perdrière, Jean Debucourt and Denise Grey.Rège p.940 It was shot at the Franstudio complex at Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Hubert. Although using a similar theme and location, it is not a remake of the 1932 British film ''Rome Express''. Synopsis Five women are invited by a mysterious correspondent to catch a train from Paris to Rome. They begin to disappear one by one from the sleeping car, and Inspector Giovanni investigate the mysterious situation with many potential suspects on board. Cast * Hélène Perdrière as Hélène * Jean Debucourt as Lacaze * Denise Grey as Margot * Saturnin Fabre as le professeur * Arthur Devère as Jeff Lambick * Jacqueline Pierreux as Nicole * Charles Dechamps as Delafosse * Robert Pizani as Cornaglia * Jean Tissier as Giovanni * Jacqueline Dor as Denise * Roger Caccia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Stengel
Christian Stengel (1902–1986) was a French film director and screenwriter.Rège p.939-940 Originally a bank clerk, he entered films in 1933 when he wrote his first screenplay. Selected filmography * ''Crime and Punishment (1935 French film), Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * ''The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1936 film), The Mutiny of the Elsinore'' (1936) * ''The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * ''Beethoven's Great Love'' (1937) * ''The Man from Nowhere (1937 film), The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1938 film), The Most Beautiful Girl in the World'' (1938) * ''The Duraton Family'' (1939) * ''The Chain Breaker'' (1941) * ''Secrets (1943 film), Secrets'' (1943) * ''Alone in the Night (1945 film), Alone in the Night'' (1945) * ''The Lost Village (film), The Lost Village'' (1947) * ''Dreams of Love (1947 film), Dreams of Love'' (1947) * ''Rome Express (1950 film), Rome Express'' (1950) * ''No Pity for Women'' (1950) * ''The Most Beautiful Girl in the Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Dor
Jacqueline Dor (1929–1972) was a French film actress.Goble p.328 Selected filmography * '' Monsieur de Falindor'' (1947) * ''Scandals of Clochemerle'' (1948) * ''Three Boys, One Girl'' (1948) * '' Cage of Girls'' (1949) * '' Emile the African'' (1949) * ''Rome Express'' (1950) * ''Three Sailors in a Convent ''Three Sailors in a Convent'' (French: ''Trois marins dans un couvent'') is a 1950 French comedy film directed by Émile Couzinet and starring Frédéric Duvallès, Raphaël Patorni and Jacqueline Dor.https://www.unifrance.org/film/7414/trois- ...'' (1950) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1929 births 1972 deaths French film actresses People from Boulogne-sur-Mer Actresses from Hauts-de-France 20th-century French women {{france-film-actor-1920s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Tissier
Jean Tissier (1896–1973) was a French stage, film and television actor.Goble p.440 A prolific actor, he had more than two hundred fifty appearances on screen during his career. He was married to the actress Georgette Tissier. Selected filmography * '' A Rare Bird'' (1935) * '' The Mascot'' (1935) * '' The Slipper Episode'' (1935) * '' Return to Paradise'' (1935) * '' The Brighton Twins'' (1936) * '' Nitchevo'' (1936) * '' The Great Refrain'' (1936) * '' The Bureaucrats'' (1936) * '' The Club of Aristocrats'' (1937) * '' Boulot the Aviator'' (1937) * '' Blanchette'' (1937) * '' Sarati the Terrible'' (1937) * '' Hercule'' (1938) * '' The Two Schemers'' (1938) * '' Crossroads'' (1938) * '' Alert in the Mediterranean'' (1938) * ''I Was an Adventuress'' (1938) * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) * '' Whirlwind of Paris'' (1939) * '' Case of Conscience'' (1939) * ''Latin Quarter'' (1939) * '' Night in December'' (1940) * ''False Alarm'' (1940) * '' Beating Heart'' (1940) * '' Romance of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pizani
Robert Pizani (26 April 1896 – 17 June 1965) was a French stage and film actor whose 45-year career encompassed leading roles in numerous plays, revues and operettas as well as dozens of films. In operetta Pizani's roles in operetta and musical theatre include: *''Amants légitimes'' by Fernand Mallet (1924) Théâtre de l'Étoile, as Le Comte de Puyssec (world premiere) *'' Monsieur Beaucaire'' by André Messager (1925) Théâtre Marigny, as Nash (French premiere) *''Pouche'' by Henri Hirschmann (1925) Théâtre de l'Étoile, as Alfred (world premiere) *''La Teresina'' by Oscar Straus (1928) Théâtre des Folies-Wagram, as Prince Borghese (premiere of French version) *'' Tip-Toes'' by George Gershwin (1929) Théâtre des Folies-Wagram, as Oncle Puff (French premiere) *'' Brummell'' by Reynaldo Hahn (1931) Théâtre des Folies-Wagram, as Beau Brummell (world premiere) *''Les Petites Cardinal'' by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert (1938) Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, as Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dechamps
Charles Dechamps (13 September 1882 – 25 September 1959) was a French stage and film actor. He married the comedian Fernande Albany on 19 November 1925. He died in 1959, and was buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise. Filmography * 1909: ''Les Petits pieds de Berthe'' * 1909: ''Fourberie conjugale'' * 1909: ''Mariage à l'espagnole'' by Michel Carré * 1910: ''Au temps des grisettes'' by Georges Denola * 1911: ''L'Anniversaire de Mademoiselle Félicité'' by Georges Denola * 1911: ''Clémence d'Isabeau, la princesse d'Héristal'' by Georges Denola * 1911: ''Frisette, blanchisseuse de fin'' by Georges Denola * 1911: ''Mimi Pinson'' by Georges Denola * 1911: ''Galathée'' by Georges Denola * 1911: ''Moderne Galathée'' by Daniel Riche * 1911: ''L'Homme de peine'' by Michel Carré * 1911: ''Deux Filles d'Espagne'' by Maurice Denécheau * 1912: ''Nini l'assommeur'' by Maurice Bernhardt * 1912: ''La Bohème'' by Albert Capellani * 1912: ''La Sonate du diable'' by René ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Pierreux
Jacqueline Pierreux (15 January 1923 – 10 March 2005) was a French film and television actress.Philip Mosley p.105 From the early 1970s onwards she also enjoyed success as a producer. She was the wife of screenwriter Pierre Léaud and the mother of prolific film actor Jean-Pierre Léaud who starred in Francois Truffaut's ''The 400 Blows'' and '' Day For Night''. Selected filmography * '' The Midnight Sun'' (1943) * ''Six Hours to Lose'' (1946) * '' The Ideal Couple'' (1946) * '' Dawn Devils'' (1946) * ''That's Not the Way to Die'' (1946) * ''Vertigo'' (1947) * ''Scandal'' (1948) * '' Between Eleven and Midnight'' (1949) * '' L' Amore di Norma'' (1950) * '' Rome Express'' (1950) * '' Women and Brigands'' (1950) * ''Murders'' (1950) * '' Le Dindon'' (1951) * '' The Case of Doctor Galloy'' (1951) * ''Abbiamo vinto!'' (1951) * '' Malavita'' (1951) * ''We Are All Murderers'' (1952) * '' Feather in the Wind'' (1952) * '' In the Land of the Sun'' (1952) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Devère
Arthur Devère (; 24 June 1883 – 23 September 1961) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1913 and 1956. Selected filmography * ''L'agent Rigolo et son chien policier'' (1913) * ''Flup chasseur'' (1920) * ''L'héritier'' (1921) - Meunier * ''Arthur fait du film'' (1921) * '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1932) - Isidore * '' Take Care of Amelie'' (1932) - Van Putzeboum * ''Jeunes filles en liberté'' (1933) * '' The Guardian Angel'' (1934) - L'aveugle * '' Carnival in Flanders'' (1935) - Le poissonnier / The Fishmonger * ''Martha'' (1936) - Le fermier Plunkett * '' The Terrible Lovers'' (1936) - Le portier de l'hôtel * '' Wolves Between Them'' (1936) - Le garçon du Vaterland * '' A Legionnaire'' (1936) - Vandercleef * '' The Man of the Hour'' (1937) - L'opérateur * '' Widow's Island'' (1937) * '' The Men Without Names'' (1937) - Schumbe, l'ordonnance * '' Miarka'' (1937) * '' Mollenard'' (1938) - Joseph * ''Grisou'' (1938) - Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inspector
Inspector, also police inspector or inspector of police, is a police rank. The rank or position varies in seniority depending on the organization that uses it. Australia The rank of Inspector is present in all Australian police forces except for the Northern Territory. Where it exists, it is generally the next senior rank from Senior Sergeant, and is the lowest commissioned rank. Uniformed officers of this rank wear epaulettes with three pips, matching a Captain in the army. In addition to the general rank of inspector, some police forces use other ranks such as detective inspector and district inspector. Austria In Austria a similar scheme was used as in Germany. At some point the police inspector was completely removed from the list of service ranks. The current police service has an inspectors service track with ''Inspektor'' being the entry level – it is followed by ''Revierinspektor'' (precinct inspector), ''Gruppeninspektor'' (group inspector), ''Bezirksinspektor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Car
The sleeping car or sleeper (often ) is a railway passenger car (rail), passenger car that can accommodate all passengers in beds of one kind or another, for the purpose of sleeping. George Pullman was the main American innovator and owner of sleeper cars in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when railroads dominated intercity passenger travel. The first such cars saw sporadic use on American and English railways in the 1830s; they could be configured for Coach (rail), coach seating during the day. History Possibly the earliest example of a sleeping car (or ''bed carriage'', as it was then called) was on the London & Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways between London and Lancashire, England. The bed carriage was first made available to first-class passengers in 1838. In the spring of 1839, the Cumberland Valley Railroad pioneered sleeping car service in the United States with a car named "Chambersburg", between Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Train
A train (from Old French , from Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and Passenger train, transport people or Rail freight transport, freight. Trains are typically pulled or pushed by locomotives (often known simply as "engines"), though some are self-propelled, such as multiple units or railcars. Passengers and cargo are carried in railroad cars, also known as wagons or carriages. Trains are designed to a certain gauge, or distance between rails. Most trains operate on steel tracks with steel wheels, the low friction of which makes them more efficient than other forms of transport. Many countries use rail transport. Trains have their roots in wagonways, which used railway tracks and were powered by horses or pulled by cables. Following the invention of the steam locomo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
