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Foun-Sen
Foun-Sen (28 February 1915 – 5 February 1989) was a French-Vietnamese film actress. She was married to the film director Léo Joannon.Keith p.125 Selected filmography * '' Port Arthur'' (1936) * ''Samson'' (1936) * ''Wolves Between Them'' 1936) * ''Forty Little Mothers'' (1936) * ''The Alibi'' (1937) * ''Yoshiwara'' (1937) * ''Woman of Malacca'' (1937) * ''Mollenard'' (1938) * '' The City of Lights'' (1938) *'' The Shanghai Drama'' (1938) * ''Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared'' (1938) * '' The Emigrant'' (1940) * '' The Ménard Collection'' (1944) * ''Fort du Fou ''Fort du fou'' is a 1963 in film, 1963 Italian/French international co-production war film set during the First Indochina War co-written and directed by Leo Joannon. American International Pictures#AIP-TV, American International Pictures released ...'' (1963) * '' Five Ashore in Singapore'' (1967) References Bibliography * Keith, Charles. ''Subjects and Sojourners: A History of Indochinese in France''. University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Arthur (film)
''Port Arthur'' (French: ''Port-Arthur'') is a 1936 war film, war drama film directed by Nicolas Farkas and starring Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux and Charles Vanel. It was a Co-production (media), co-production between France, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Separate versions were produced in French-language, French and German-language, German, with Walbrook starring in both versions. The film was based on a novel of the same title by Pierre Frondaie.Goble p.168 It was shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Lochakoff, Stepán Kopecký and Vladimir Meingard. It premiered at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin on 7 December 1936 and had its Paris opening four days later. Cast French version * Anton Walbrook as Boris Ranewsky * Danielle Darrieux as Youki, Boris's wife * Charles Vanel as Commander Vassidloff * Jean-Max as Ivamoura, Youki's brother * Jean Worms as Commander Novitzki * Foun-Sen as La servante * Jean Appert * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ménard Collection
''The Ménard Collection'' (French: ''La collection Ménard'') is a 1944 French comedy film directed by Bernard Roland and starring Lucien Baroux, Suzy Prim and Suzanne Dehelly. Bertin-Maghit p.183 It was shot at the François 1er Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Dumesnil. Synopsis Renée a young woman from Indochina arrives in Paris in search of her father who she has never met and knows only by his surname Ménard. Using the phone book she attempts to hunt him down, meeting a whole collection of Ménards with varying professions and personalities none of whom prove to be her father. Cast * Lucien Baroux as Le conservateur du musée de mathématiques * Suzy Prim as Madame Ménard * Suzanne Dehelly as Dora * Foun-Sen as Renée Ménard * Jean Tissier as L'employé de l'état civil * Pierre Larquey as Le psychiatre fou * Jean Brochard as Le guide * Jean Périer as Le vieillard * Jean Mercanton as Paul - le jeune sportif * Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Alibi (1937 Film)
''The Alibi'' (French: ''L'Alibi'') is a 1937 French mystery film directed by Pierre Chenal and starring Erich von Stroheim, Albert Préjean and Jany Holt. It has been described as a precursor to film noir. The film was shot at the Billancourt Studios and Epinay Studios in Paris. Location shooting took place at Trilport on the River Seine. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Eugène Lourié and Serge Piménoff The film was well received by critics on its release.Andrew p.134 It was released in the United States in April 1939 by Columbia Pictures. It was remade as the 1942 British film ''Alibi'' starring Margaret Lockwood and James Mason. Synopsis Professor Winckler, a stage thought reader, encounters an old enemy and kills him. He pays one of the hostesses at the nightclub he performs at to give him an alibi. A police detective is convinced that Winckler is the murderer and sets out to break the alibi. Cast * Erich von Stroheim as Le professeur Winckler * Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Emigrant (1940 Film)
''The Emigrant'' (French: ''L'émigrante'') is a 1940 French comedy film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Edwige Feuillère, Jean Chevrier and Georges Lannes.Monaco p.484 It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert-Jules Garnier. Synopsis Christiane runs a bar in Antwerp which is frequented by the smuggler Tino. After killing a customs officer, he steals her jewellery and flees. She informs on him to the police, but he manages to escape and comes looking for revenge against her. She joins a group of emigrants leaving on a ship for South Africa as a stowaway. Hiding in the cabin of one of the crew, she gradually falls in love with him. Cast * Edwige Feuillère as Christiane Vallier * Jean Chevrier as François Champart * Georges Lannes as Tino * Foun-Sen as L'Annamite aux béquilles * Palmyre Levasseur as La religieuse de l'hospice de Lisbonne * Jacques Vitry as Le commissaire * Edmond Van Daële as Un � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared
''Monsieur Breloque Has Disappeared'' (French: ''Monsieur Breloque a disparu'') is a 1938 French comedy film directed by Robert Péguy and starring Lucien Baroux, Junie Astor and Suzy Pierson. Rège p.677 It is an adaptation of the 1923 stage farce ''Dicky'' by Paul Armont, Marcel Gerbidon and Jean Manoussi. The film's sets were designed by the art director Émile Duquesne. Synopsis The private detective Pierre Martel asks his friend Monsieur Breloque to take over his business for a short time. He is soon propelled into a series of misadventures. Cast * Lucien Baroux as Monsieur Breloque * Junie Astor as Francine * Suzy Pierson as La comtesse de Brazeuil * Marcel Simon as Le comte de Brazeuil * Gabrielle Dorziat as La baronne Granger * Foun-Sen as Thi-Hou * André Bervil as Le détective Pierre Martel * Marguerite Pierry Hermance Piegeois * Jean Brochard * Rivers Cadet * Pauline Carton * Paul Castan * Raymond Galle Raymond Galle (1913–2003) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Shanghai Drama
''The Shanghai Drama'' () is a 1938 French drama film directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Christl Mardayn, Louis Jouvet and Raymond Rouleau.Kennedy-Karpat p.132-33 An exiled White Russian woman works as a cabaret singer in Shanghai to support her daughter through school. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Andrej Andrejew and Guy de Gastyne. It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location in Saigon in French Indochina. Cast * Raymond Rouleau as Franchon * Louis Jouvet as Ivan * Christl Mardayn as Kay Murphy, cabaret singer * Elina Labourdette as Nana, the nurse * Valéry Inkijinoff as Black Dragon Agent * Dorville as Bill, cabaret owner * André Alerme as Mac Tavish * Suzanne Desprès as Vera * Gabrielle Dorziat as Superintendent of school * Marcel Lupovici as Assassin for Black Dragon * Robert Manuel as Le client attaqué * PierreasLouis as Un marin américain * LinhasNam as Cheng * Foun-Sen as Wife of Black Dragon Agent * Mila Parél ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The City Of Lights
''The City of Lights'' (French: ''La Cité des lumières'') is a 1938 French drama film directed by Jean de Limur and starring Madeleine Robinson, Daniel Lecourtois, and Claire Gérard.https://www.unifrance.org/film/37918/la-cite-des-lumieres The film's sets were designed by art director Émile Duquesne. Synopsis Madeleine Pascard a university student falls in love with the assistant of a doctor, but also attracts the interest of the doctor's son. This leads to conflict between the two. When her own father dies leaving her financially ruined Madeleine has to leave her studies and finds work as a taxi dancer. Her friend, who has lost touch with her, runs into her suddenly one night at the dance hall and reproves her for taking on such work. However the rift is ultimately healed. Cast * Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine Pascard * Daniel Lecourtois as Rodolphe Davoust * Pierre Larquey as Alexis - le serviteur * Claire Gérard as Georges Leclerc * Yolande Laffon as Madame Davoust * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mollenard
''Mollenard'' is a 1938 French drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Harry Baur, Gabrielle Dorziat and Pierre Renoir. It was also known by the alternative titles of ''Hatred'' and ''Capitaine Corsaire''. The film's sets were designed by Alexandre Trauner. It is based on the novel of the same name by the Belgian writer . The film's plot divides sharply into halves, with the first an action thriller set in China while the second is a social drama with the title character struggling to cope with what he regards as the suffocating atmosphere of his home port in France. The film was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris and on location. An English-language version starring Victor McLaglen and Ruth Chatterton was planned but never made. Plot Captain Mollenard is an uncouth, almost piratical, commander of a merchant ship sailing out of Dunkirk. When the ship's owners discover that Mollenard has been selling arms on his own account, they decided to suspend him f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Ashore In Singapore
''Five Ashore in Singapore'' AKA ''Singapore, Singapore'' and ''Cinq gars pour Singapour'' is a 1967 French/Italian international co-production film based on the 1959 novel by Jean Bruce. Filmed on location in Singapore in 1966, it was the last film of Sean Flynn. The film was based on a novel by Jean Bruce who created OSS 117 and the working title was ''OSS117 Goes to Singapore''. Plot Capt. Art Smith and four US Marine volunteers in Singapore investigate the disappearance of other Marines on shore leave in that city and discover that a mad scientist is responsible. Cast * Sean Flynn ... Captain Art Smith * Marika Green ... Monika Latzko *Terry Downes ... Sgt. Gruber * Marc Michel ... Captain Kevin Gray * Dennis Berry ... Lt. Dan * Bernard Meusnier ... Lt. Ángel McIlhemy * Peter Gayford ... Mr. Brown * Andrea Aureli ... Ta-Chouen * Jessy Greek ... Ten-Sin * Trudy Connor ... Tchin-Saw * William Brix ... Cpt. Kafir * Foun-Sen Foun- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiwara (1937 Film)
''Yoshiwara'' is a 1937 French historical drama film directed by Max Ophüls and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Sessue Hayakawa and Michiko Tanaka. It is based on a novel of the same title by Maurice Dekobra. It was shot at the Joinville Studios of Pathé in Paris and on location at the Musée Albert-Kahn in Billancourt and in Rochefort-en-Yvelines and Villefranche-sur-Mer. The film's sets were designed by the art directors André Barsacq and Léon Barsacq. Synopsis The film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer and a rickshaw man. Reception The film was Ophüls' greatest pre-war French financial success. ''Yoshiwara'' proved controversial in Japan where the government objected to the depiction of Japanese brothels and banned it. There was a negative reaction against the two Japanese actors who had starred in the film, and they were labelled as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forty Little Mothers (1936 Film)
''Forty Little Mothers'' (French: ''Le mioche'') is a 1936 French comedy film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring Lucien Baroux, Gabrielle Dorziat and Pauline Carton.Driskell p.210 The 1940 Hollywood film ''Forty Little Mothers'' was based on the same story. Plot summary Cast * Lucien Baroux as Prosper Martin * Gabrielle Dorziat as Mme Granval, La directrice * Pauline Carton as Mlle Clotilde * Milly Mathis as Gervaise * Madeleine Robinson as Denise Mériel, la mère * Jane Pierson as La gérante * Georges Vitray as Dalbret * Marcel Maupi as Marius Rabut * Jean Périer as L'aumônier * Pierre Labry as Bourgeon, le père * Gilbert Gil as Robert Bourgeon, le fils * Marcel Carpentier as Le cuisinier * René Bergeron as Le garagiste * André Siméon as Le pochard * Pierre Juvenet as Le coadjuteur * Philippe as Le mioche * Nane Germon as Simone * Anne Doria as Valentine * Wally Carveno as Geneviève * Claire Gérard as Le lingère * Elisabeth Aumont a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Du Fou
''Fort du fou'' is a 1963 in film, 1963 Italian/French international co-production war film set during the First Indochina War co-written and directed by Leo Joannon. American International Pictures#AIP-TV, American International Pictures released the film straight to American television in 1965 under the title ''Outpost in Indochina''.p.232 Heffernan, Kevin ''Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953–1968'' Duke University Press, 25 Mar 2004 Cast *Jacques Harden ... Capitaine Noyelles *Alain Saury ... Lieutenant Veyrac *Jean Rochefort ... Sergent Hérange * Foun-Sen ... Xuan * Jean-Loup Reynold ... Private Bernard Jules * Mai-Trung ... The Priest * Van Quynh ... Chief of the Viet Minh * Stan Dylik ... Chief Adjutant Prétot * Laurent Dumm ... Sergent Durrieu * Le Bâ Dat ... Sergent Minh * Paul Luu Dinh ... Lu Banh * Nguyen Thi Tuyet ... Marie Phuong * Michel Charrel ... Private Vincent * Robert Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |