''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
Henri Desfontaines (12 November 1876, Paris – 7 January 1931, Paris) was a French film director, actor, and scriptwriter.
Filmography
As director
* 1908 : ''Hamlet''
* 1909 : '' Le Puits et le pendule''
* 1910 : '' Un invité gênant''
* 19 ...
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
Jeanne Helbling (July 26, 1903 – August 6, 1985) was a French film actressGoble p.37 and a prominent member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Selected filmography
* '' The Thruster'' (1924)
* '' Mandrin'' (1924)
* ''Captain Rascas ...
.
[Oscherwitz & Higgins p.202]
Cast
*
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 ...
as 'Capitaine' Rascasse
*
Claude Mérelle as Madelon, la reine du whisky
*
Jeanne Helbling
Jeanne Helbling (July 26, 1903 – August 6, 1985) was a French film actressGoble p.37 and a prominent member of the French Resistance during World War II.
Selected filmography
* '' The Thruster'' (1924)
* '' Mandrin'' (1924)
* ''Captain Rascas ...
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 Rascas ...
as Miss Waterbury
*
Paulette Berger as Paulette Samorède
*
Jean Devalde as Jean de Trégor
*
Joë Hamman as Curtius Salem
*
Pierre Hot
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 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 V ...
as Pablo Moralès
*
Pierre Denols 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
Noelle or Noëlle is the feminine form of the gender neutral name Noel. It derives from the old French Noël, "Christmas," a variant (and later a replacement) of nael, which itself derives from the Latin natalis, "birthday". Other nicknames a ...
*
Jane Pierson
Jane Pierson was a French film actress.Goble p.130 She appeared in fifty five films between 1924 and 1952.
Selected filmography
* '' The Imaginary Voyage'' (1926)
* ''Captain Rascasse'' (1927)
* '' The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans'' (1927) ...
*
Cesar-Tullio Terrore
References
Bibliography
* Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. ''The A to Z of French Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
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1927 films
French silent films
1920s French-language films
French black-and-white films
Pathé films
Films directed by Henri Desfontaines
1920s French films
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