''The Man with the Hispano'' (

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: ''L'homme à l'Hispano'') is a 1926 French silent

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directed by

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and starring

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, Georges Galli and Acho Chakatouny.Goble p.168 The title refers to a luxury

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car. It was based on a novel of the same title by

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and was remade as a sound film '' The Man with the Hispano'' in 1933. The film's sets were designed by the

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took place in

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and

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Cast

as Stéphane Oswill * Georges Galli as Georges Dewalter * Acho Chakatouny as Lord William Meredith Oswill *

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as Madame Déléone *

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as Maître Mont-Normand *

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as Antoinette – la femme du garde-chasse *

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as Déléone – l'homme à l'Hispano *

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as Le garde * Mendès as Le garde-chasse * Angyal as La femme de chambre *

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References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * McCann, Ben. ''Julien Duvivier''. Oxford University Press, 2017.

External links

* 1926 films French silent feature films 1920s French-language films Films directed by Julien Duvivier French black-and-white films 1926 drama films Films based on French novels Silent French drama films 1920s French films French-language drama films {{1920s-France-film-stub