''Captain Rascasse'' (French: ''Le capitaine Rascasse'') is a 1927 French

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

directed by Henri Desfontaines and starring

Gabriel Gabrio Gabriel Gabrio (born Édouard Gabriel Lelièvre; 13 January 1887 – 31 October 1946) was a French stage and film actor whose career began in cinema in the silent film era of the 1920s and spanned more than two decades. Gabrio is possibly best re ...

, Claude Mérelle and Jeanne Helbling.Oscherwitz & Higgins p.202

Cast

as 'Capitaine' Rascasse * Claude Mérelle as Madelon, la reine du whisky * Jeanne Helbling as Germaine Delaroche-Estève *

Alice Tissot Alice Tissot (1 January 1890 – 5 May 1971) was a French actress. Partial filmography * ''Poum à la chasse'' (1908) * ''Le devoir'' (1908) * ' (1909) * ' (1909) * '' The Two Girls'' (1921) * '' A Son from America'' (1924) * '' Captain Rasca ...

as Miss Waterbury *

Paulette Berger Paulette may refer to: *Paulette (name), French feminine given name * Paulette (tax) * Paulette Caveat - a caveat filed in 1973 by a group of Dene chiefs at the land titles office in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to gain a legal interest in 4 ...

as Paulette Samorède *

Jean Devalde Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jea ...

as Jean de Trégor * Joë Hamman as Curtius Salem * Pierre Hot as Delaroche-Estève * Mario Nasthasio as Rodriguez-Garcia *

Paul Ollivier François Hilarion Paul Olivari, stage name Paul Ollivier (10 February 1876 - 10 June 1948) was a French film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Phantom of the Moulin Rouge'' (1925) * ''The Queen of Moulin Rouge'' (1926) * ''The Imaginary Voyag ...

as Pablo Moralès *

Pierre Denols Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

as Trégor Père * Maurice Della Méa as Monsieur de Lérac * Albert Decoeur as Samorède * Engeldorff *

Jim Gérald Jim Gérald (4 July 1889 – 2 July 1958) was a French actor. Gérald was born Gérald Ernest Cuénod in Paris. He died in Paris in 1958. Selected filmography * ''La légende de soeur Béatrix'' (1923) - Un soudard * ''The Imaginary Voyage' ...

* Noëlle Mato * Jane Pierson * Cesar-Tullio Terrore

References

Bibliography

* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1927 films French silent films 1920s French-language films French black-and-white films Pathé films Films directed by Henri Desfontaines 1920s French films {{1920s-France-film-stub