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Jacques Bar
Jacques Bar (12 September 1921, Châteauroux – 19 January 2009, Boulogne-Billancourt) was a French film producer who made more than 80 films. Select credits * ''Branquignol'' (1949) * ''My Seal and Them'' (1951) * ''The Adventures of Mandrin'' (1952) * '' The Man in My Life'' (1952) * '' Crazy for Love'' (1952) * ''I Vitelloni'' (1953) * '' The Slave'' (1953) * ''House of Ricordi'' (1954) * '' Spring, Autumn and Love'' (1955) * ''Typhoon Over Nagasaki'' (1957) *''Bridge to the Sun'' (1961) *'' Any Number Can Win'' (1962) * ''The Gentleman from Epsom'' (1962) *''The Day and the Hour'' (1963) * ''Rififi in Tokyo'' (1963) *'' Joy House'' (1964) * '' The Dictator's Guns'' (1965) * ''The Suspects'' (1974) *'' My Father, the Hero'' (1991) *''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1998) References External links *Jacques Barat TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Châteauroux
Châteauroux (; ; oc, Chasteurós) is the capital city of the French department of Indre, central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called ''Castelroussins'' () in French. Climate Châteauroux temperatures range from an average January low of to an average August high of . History The old town, close to the river, forms a nucleus around which a newer and more extensive quarter, bordered by boulevards, has grown up; the suburbs of St. Christophe and Déols lie on the right bank of the Indre. The castle from which the city takes its name was built in the latter part of the 10th century by Raoul, prince of Déols. From 920 to 1008, the Norman raids forced the monks of the abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, founded in Brittany Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gentleman From Epsom
'' The Gentleman from Epsom'' (French: ''Le Gentleman d'Epsom'') is a 1962 French–Italian comedy film directed by Gilles Grangier and starring Jean Gabin, Madeleine Robinson and Frank Villard.Harriss p.197 The film was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. Racetracks scenes were shot at the Hippodrome d'Enghien-Soisy and Longchamp Racecourse on the outskirts of the city. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. Synopsis Richard Briand-Charmery is an older gentleman who frequents the racetracks of Paris, selling tips to customers while always looking to make himself a profit out of the dealings. Circumstances generally conspire to prevent his fortune, and he is forced to rely on assistance of his family, partly by threatening to embarrass them by being sent to jail for failure to settle his losses. One day he encounters Maud, an old flame who he once come close to marrying before having to abandon her following a heavy loss at the Epsom Derby. N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Births
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French Film Producers
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TCMDB
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of Atlanta, Georgia. The channel's programming consists mainly of classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. (covering films released before 1950), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other studios and occasionally shows more recent films. The channel is available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta (as Turner Classic Movies), Latin America, France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain, the Nordic countries, the Middle East, Africa (as TNT), and Asia-Pacific. History Origins In 1986, ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Count Of Monte Cristo (1998 Miniseries)
''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (a.k.a. ''Le Comte de Monte Cristo'') is a French-Italian four-part miniseries based on the 1844 novel ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' by Alexandre Dumas père. Plot Edmond Dantès is falsely accused of Bonapartism and sentenced to spend the rest of his life imprisoned in the dreaded Château d'If, an island fortress from which no prisoner has ever escaped, and to which the most dangerous political prisoners are sent. While imprisoned, he meets Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body to find the treasure Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him. Cast *Gérard Depardieu as Edmond Dantès *Sergio Rubini as Bertuccio *Ornella Muti as Mercedes Igualada *Jean Rochefort as F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father The Hero (1991 Film)
''My Father the Hero'' (original French title: '' Mon père, ce héros'') is a 1991 French film directed by Gérard Lauzier and starring Gérard Depardieu. An English language remake of the movie was made in 1994 with Gérard Depardieu reprising his role. The name of the film comes from a famous poem by the French poet Victor Hugo, "''Mon père, ce héros''," published in 1859. Plot André (Gérard Depardieu), a Frenchman who is divorced from his wife, takes his beautiful 14-year-old daughter, Véronique (Marie Gillain), on vacation to a paradise island. She is desperate to appear as a woman and not a girl. In order to impress a local boy, Benjamin (Patrick Mille), she makes up more and more fantastic stories, starting with André being her lover – a sugar Daddy. André is desperate to make Véronique happy and so plays along with her increasingly elaborate invented stories about her life. Production Filmed on location on Mauritius, the film introduces Marie Gillain as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Suspects
''The Suspects'' (French: ''Les suspects'') is a 1974 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Michel Wyn and starring Mimsy Farmer, Paul Meurisse and Michel Bouquet.Rège p.1021 Cast * Mimsy Farmer as Candice Strasberg * Paul Meurisse as Laurent Kirchner * Michel Bouquet as Procureur Delarue * Bruno Cremer as Commissaire Bonetti * Michael Lonsdale as Le juge Souftries * Jacques Fabbri as Commissaire Bretonnet * Renaud Verley as Bernard Vauquier * Jean-Claude Dauphin as Solnes * Marie-Hélène Breillat as Carlyne * Marco Perrin as Gabriel * Giampiero Albertini as Matteo Gallone * Luigi Pistilli as Marcello Angiotti * Cirylle Spiga as Campanez * Edmund Purdom Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 19241 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then in America on Broadway and in Hollywood, and event ... as Le journaliste américain References Bibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dictator's Guns
''The Dictator's Guns'' (french: L'Arme à gauche) is a 1965 French, Spanish and Italian international co-production crime film directed by Claude Sautet and shot in France and Spain. It was based on the 1960 novel ''Aground'' by Charles Williams. Plot In Santo Domingo, a Mr Hendrix asks the experienced skipper Cournot to look over the “Dragoon”, a ketch being sold by a widow in New York called Mrs Osborne. The Dominican police then arrest Cournot because Hendrix and the “Dragoon” have both disappeared, leaving several corpses on the shore. When Mrs Osborne flies in and corroborates his story, he is freed. She wants to find her stolen vessel and Cournot suggests a seaplane pilot in Kingston, Jamaica, who flies the two in search of where the “Dragoon” was last reported. They find it aground, close to an exposed sandbank. On going aboard, Cournot and Mrs Osborne are taken captive by a vicious gun runner called Morrison who with his gang is already holding Hendrix and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joy House (film)
''Joy House'' (French title: ''Les Félins'' / UK title: ''The Love Cage'') is a 1964 French mystery–thriller film starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon and Lola Albright. It is based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Day Keene. The film was directed by René Clément, his second for MGM. Plot In Monte Carlo, Marc, a handsome card sharp, escapes American gangsters who have been ordered to kill him by the boss of a New York gang because he had an affair with the boss's wife. Marc hides in a mission for the poor where Barbara, a wealthy widow, finds him and hires him as her chauffeur. At Barbara's chateau, Melinda, Barbara's niece, becomes attracted to him. Marc discovers that Barbara is hiding her lover, Vincent, in the secret rooms and passageways of the chateau. She and Vincent (a bank robber sought by the police for murdering Barbara's husband) plan to murder Marc so that Vincent may use his passport in escaping to South America. Marc and Barbara begin an affair but are dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rififi In Tokyo
''Rififi in Tokyo'' (French: ''Rififi à Tokyo'') is a 1963 French-Italian crime film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Karlheinz Böhm, Charles Vanel and Barbara Lass.Monaco p.160 Synopsis The veteran gangster Van Hekken arrives in Tokyo to pull off a heist of a precious diamond from a bank vault. However, when his planned second-in command is killed he has turn to the dead man's friend Carl Mersen. Cast * Karlheinz Böhm as Carl Mersen * Charles Vanel as Van Hekken * Barbara Lass as Françoise Merigné * Keiko Kishi as Asami * Michel Vitold as Pierre Merigné * Eiji Okada as Danny Riquet * Masao Oda as Kan * Dante Maggio as Luigi * Hideaki Suzuki Hideaki (ひであき) is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Hideaki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *秀秋, "excellent", "autumn" *英秋, "outstanding", "autumn" *秀明, "excellent", "bright" ... as Itoushi * Eijirô Yanagi as Ishimoto References Bibliography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day And The Hour
''The Day and the Hour'' (french: Le jour et l'heure) is a 1963 French war-time drama film directed by René Clément and starring Simone Signoret and Stuart Whitman. Plot Set in occupied France in 1944 a French woman finds herself helping a downed American pilot as he searches for a way to leave the country. Cast * Simone Signoret as Therese Dutheil * Stuart Whitman as Captain Allan Morley * Geneviève Page as Agathe Dutheil * Michel Piccoli as Antoine * Reggie Nalder as Le gestapiste * Billy Kearns as Pat Riley * Marcel Bozzuffi as Inspector Lerat * Henri Virlogeux Henri Virlogeux (22 March 1924 – 19 December 1995) was a French actor. He is known for "The 400 Blows" (1959), "Les rois maudits" (1972) and "Schulmeister, espion de l'empereur" (1971). He was married to Véronique Silver. He died on December 19, ... as Legendre * Pierre Dux as Inspector Marboz References External links * 1963 films 1963 drama films 1960s war drama films French war drama films Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
