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The Big Chief
''The Big Chief'' (French: ''Le grand chef'', Italian: ''Noi gangsters'') is a 1959 French-Italian comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi and Florence Blot. Rège p.1000 It is based on the short story '' The Ransom of Red Chief'' by O. Henry. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Parisl The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Clavel. It is also known by the alternative title ''Gangster Boss''. The two stars were known for their appearances together in the Don Camillo series of films. The story had previously been adapted for the 1952 American film ''O. Henry's Full House''. Synopsis Two garage attendants kidnap the son of a millionaire, decoying him by dressing up as Native Americans. However he soon proves to be such a handful that they can't wait for his father to take him off their hands. Cast * Fernandel as Antoine Venturen * Gino Cervi as Paulo * Papouf as Eric Jumelin * Florence Blot as Mme Florentin, la nurse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Verneuil
Henri Verneuil (; born Ashot Malakian; 15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002) was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden Globe Award, French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards. According to one obituary: For exactly 40 years, the prolific Verneuil made movies as mainstream and commercial as any to be found in America or Britain. In his best period – the 1950s and 1960s – he delivered films in the "tradition of quality" so despised by the Nouvelle Vague. Many of them proved excellent vehicles for old-timers Jean Gabin and Fernandel, and newcomers such as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon. Life and career Early life Verneuil was born Ashot Malakian ( hy, Աշոտ Մալաքեան) to Armenian parents in Rodosto, East Thrace, Turkey. In 1924, when Ashot was a litt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, 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 and inconsistenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noëlle Norman
Noëlle Norman (January 7, 1921 – January 11, 1985) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films including '' On demande un assassin'' (1949).Goble p.452 Selected filmography * '' Immediate Call'' (1939) * ''Grandfather'' (1939) * ''It Always Ends That Way'' (1939) * '' Sins of Youth'' (1941) * ''Then We'll Get a Divorce'' (1940) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1942) * '' Mademoiselle Béatrice'' (1943) * '' The Misfortunes of Sophie'' (1946) * ''Vertigo'' (1947) * '' Emile the African'' (1949) * '' The Paris Waltz'' (1950) * ''Come Down, Someone Wants You ''Come Down, Someone Wants You'' (French: ''Descendez, on vous demande'') is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Jean Laviron and starring Noëlle Norman, Daniel Clérice and Paulette Dubost.Marie p.23 It is based on the 1946 play of the same na ...'' (1951) * '' Love Is Just a Fairytale'' (1955) * '' Eighteen Hour Stopover'' (1955) References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Michel
Albert Michel (1909–1981) was a French stage, film and television actor.Paietta p.40 Selected filmography * ''Je chante'' (1938) - Un laitier (uncredited) * ''Ne bougez plus'' (1941) - Clanpinet * ''Chèque au porteur'' (1941) * ''Fièvres'' (1942) * ''Croisières sidérales'' (1942) - Un employé au commissariat (uncredited) * ''Pontcarral'' (1942) * ''Haut le vent'' (1942) - Un passager du bateau * ''Love Story'' (1943) - (uncredited) * ''Voyage Without Hope'' (1943) - Un membre d'équipage (uncredited) * ''La vie de plaisir'' (1944) - Un écclésiastique (uncredited) * ''Le bossu'' (1944) * ''François Villon'' (1945) - Le paysan accusé * '' Sylvie et le fantôme'' (1946) - Gabriel (uncredited) * '' Jericho'' (1946) - Le correspondant qui vient de Hollande * ''Les J3'' (1946) * ''Trente et quarante'' (1946) - Le voyageur bègue dans le train * ''Mensonges'' (1946) - Le greffier de la prison * '' The Sea Rose'' (1946) - Un mécanicien * ''Nuits d'alerte'' (1946) - (uncredit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héléna Manson
Elena Eugenia Manson (18 August 1898 – 15 September 1994) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1925 and 1989. Selected filmography * ''La vocation d'André Carel'' (1925) – L'amoureuse de Cardan * ''The Mystery of the Villa Rose'' (1930) – Hélène Vauquier * '' The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) – Fénia * '' The Indictment'' (1931) – Annette Evans * ''Monsieur le duc'' (1931) – La secrétaire * ''Kameradschaft'' (1931) – Rose, la femme du mineur blessé * ''Narcotics'' (1932) – L'infirmière (uncredited) * ''Le cas du docteur Brenner'' (1933) – L'infirmière * '' Madame Bovary'' (1934) – Héloïse Bovary * ''Fedora'' (1934) – La femme de chambre * ''Coralie et Cie'' (1934) – L'infirmière * ''Un train dans la nuit'' (1934) – La folle * '' Pension Mimosas'' (1935) – La petite rentière * '' Helene'' (1936) – Valérie * ''À Venise, une nuit'' (1937) – Julie * ''Rail Pirates'' (1938) – Madame Teysseire * ''Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Delbo
Jean-Jacques Delbo (10 January 1909 – 20 May 1996) was a French actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1936 to 1990. Filmography References External links * 1909 births 1996 deaths French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Davray
Dominique Davray (born Marie-Louise Gournay; 27 January 1919 in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ... – 16 August 1998 in Paris) was a French actress. She performed in more than ninety films from 1942 to 1983. Filmography External links * 20th-century French actresses 1919 births 1998 deaths French film actresses Actresses from Paris {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Chamarat
Georges Chamarat (30 March 1901 – 21 November 1982) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1929 and 1981. He starred in the film '' The Adventures of Arsène Lupin'', which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Partial filmography * '' President Haudecoeur'' (1940) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * ''La Main du diable'' (1943) * ''Pierre and Jean'' (1943) * ''Adrien'' (1943) * '' Late Love'' (1943) * '' Majestic Hotel Cellars'' (1945) * '' Her Final Role'' (1946) * '' The Seventh Door'' (1947) * ''Bluebeard'' (1951) * '' Two Pennies Worth of Violets'' (1951) * ''Adorables créatures'' (1952) * ''An Artist with Ladies'' (1952) * ''Julietta'' (1953) * '' The Lovers of Marianne'' (1953) * '' The Sheep Has Five Legs'' (1954) * ''Wild Fruit'' (1954) * '' Quay of Blondes'' (1954) * '' Mam'zelle Nitouche'' (1954) * '' Spring, Autumn and Love'' (1955) * '' Madelon'' (1955) * ''It Happened in Aden'' (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Americans In The United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States (Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, Alaska and territories of the United States are generally known by other terms). There are 574 federally recognized tribes living within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations. As defined by the United States Census, "Native Americans" are Indigenous tribes that are originally from the contiguous United States, along with Alaska Natives. Indigenous peoples of the United States who are not listed as American Indian or Alaska Native include Native Hawaiians, Samoan Americans, and the Chamorro people. The US Census groups these peoples as " Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders". European colonization of the Americas, which began in 1492, resulted in a precipitous decline in Native American population because of new diseases, wars, ethnic cleansin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millionaire
A millionaire is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency. Depending on the currency, a certain level of prestige is associated with being a millionaire. In countries that use the short scale number naming system, a billionaire is someone who has at least a thousand times a million dollars, euros or the currency of the given country. Many national currencies have, or have had at various times, a low unit value, in many cases due to past inflation. It is obviously much easier and less significant to be a millionaire in those currencies, thus a millionaire (in the local currency) in Hong Kong or Taiwan, for example, may be merely averagely wealthy, or perhaps less wealthy than average. A millionaire in Zimbabwe in 2007 could have been extremely poor. Because of this, the term 'millionaire' generally refers to those whose assets total at least one million units of a high-value currency, such as the United States dollar, Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filling Station Attendant
A filling station attendant or gas station attendant (also known as a gas jockey in the US and Canada) is a worker at a full-service filling station who performs services other than accepting payment. Tasks usually include pumping fuel, cleaning windshields, and checking vehicle oil levels. Prior to the introduction of self-starting vehicle engines, attendants would also start vehicle engines by manually turning the crankshaft with a hand crank. In the United States, gas jockeys were often tipped for their services, but this is now rare as full-service stations are uncommon except in the states New Jersey and Oregon (counties with more than 40,000 residents), the town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, and the town of Huntington, New York, where retail customers are prohibited by law from pumping their own gasoline. Filling station attendants are still employed at gas stations in many countries. In Finland, for example, filling station attendants are currently only used at Shell's se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
