It is the early 60s in France. The remaining survivors of the aborted French Foreign Legion have made repeated attempts to kill DeGaulle. Read More »
Tag Archives: Michel Auclair
Si Versailles m’était conté (1954) Sacha Guitry, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Louis Barrault
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV Read More »
Manon (1949) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Reggiani, Michel Auclair, Cécile Aubry
An adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s classic French novel ‘Manon Lescaut’, updated to post-World War II France Read More »
Bonnes à tuer AKA One Step to Eternity (1954) Henri Decoin, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Corinne Calvet
Francois Roques, a power-and-money-mad editor of a Paris newspaper Read More »
Tuesday’s Guest (1950) Jacques Deval, Bernard Blier, Michel Auclair, Madeleine Robinson
Charles is a good husband; he is not handsome but he contents himself with his collection of stamps, his slippers and his crepes. Read More »
Rice Girl (1956) Raffaello Matarazzo, Elsa Martinelli, Folco Lulli, Michel Auclair
The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Read More »
The Corrupt (1963) Jacques Deray, Michel Auclair, Claude Dauphin, José Giovanni
Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes. Read More »
Murder at 45 R.P.M. (1960) Etienne Périer, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Jean Servais
Danielle Darrieux stars in this Belgian chiller as a songstress whose obsessively jealous husband suddenly dies. Read More »
Three Men to Destroy (1980) Jacques Deray, Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. Read More »
Souvenirs d’en France (1975) André Téchiné, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Auclair, Marie-France Pisier
In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois family. Read More »
Maigret et l’affaire Saint-Fiacre / Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959) Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier
Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days later she does so by an heart attack, but Maigret does not believe in this…
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La fête à Henriette / Holiday for Henrietta (1952) Julien Duvivier, Dany Robin, Michel Auclair, Hildegard Knef
After the rejection of their latest – and preposterous – scenario, two script writers get back to basics to prepare a new movie. The new scenario centers on Henriette, a pretty, lively Parisian, and how she spends the 14th of July in Paris with her fiancé. We follow the tribulations of Henriette as various other characters make their entry in the story and turn a traditional festive day into something more adventurous than expected.
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