A Frenchwoman accused of the murder of her child’s father in an English court rejects her defence lawyer. Read More »
Tag Archives: Barbara Laage
The Respectful Whore / La p… respectueuse (1952) Charles Brabant, Marcello Pagliero, Barbara Laage, Ivan Desny, Walter Bryant
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. Read More »
There’s Going to Be a Party / Ça va être ta fête (1960) Pierre Montazel, Eddie Constantine, Barbara Laage, Stefan Schnabel
FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Read More »
To Catch a Spy / Action immédiate (1957) Maurice Labro, Henri Vidal, Barbara Laage, Jacques Dacqmine
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. Read More »
Traviata ’53 (1953) Vittorio Cottafavi, Barbara Laage, Armando Francioli, Eduardo De Filippo
Updated version of the Camille melodrama: An engineer has a romance with the mistress Read More »
Act of Love (1953) Anatole Litvak, Kirk Douglas, Dany Robin, Barbara Laage
A former soldier on holiday in the French Riviera recalls his time in France during WWII, and his love for a French peasant woman. Read More »
The Happy Road (1957) Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Michael Redgrave, Comedy
While setting up a business in Paris, American widower Michael Andrews has placed his adolescent son, Danny Andrews, in a Swiss boarding school as Mike has no time during this phase of the business set-up to look after Danny on his own. Mike receives distressing news that Danny has run away from the school with another student, Parisienne Janine Duval. This news does not sit well with either Mike or Janine’s divorcée mother, Suzanne Duval. Suzanne believes Danny is a delinquent influence on her daughter, while Mike believes Janine is an enabler as non-French speaking Danny could not manage outside the school without some language assistance. They learn from another student that Danny is heading to Paris to show Mike that he is independent enough to live in Paris with Mike, while Janine tagged along because she sees herself as Danny’s girl and as she has not seen her mother in some time. As the children have not been gone long and as there is only one road between the school and Paris,…
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