A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger, sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den. Read More »
Tag Archives: Jean Delannoy
Destinées (1954) Christian-Jaque, Jean Delannoy, Claudette Colbert, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Mirko Ellis
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times Read More »
The Eternal Return (1943) Jean Delannoy, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Marais, Jean Murat
Eternal Return (L’Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. Read More »
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) Jean Delannoy, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn, Jean Danet
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Read More »
La symphonie pastorale (1946) Jean Delannoy, Pierre Blanchar, Michèle Morgan, Line Noro, Drama
On Christmas Eve, Jean Martens, a Swiss minister, takes in a blind half-crippled orphan and brings her up with his four children. Read More »
Les amitiés particulières / This Special Friendship (1964) Jean Delannoy, Francis Lacombrade, Didier Haudepin, François Leccia, Drama
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the upperclassman who is the object of his desire. All set in the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.
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L’assassin a peur la nuit (1942) Jean Delannoy, Mireille Balin, Jean Chevrier, Louise Carletti, Crime, Drama
Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. Read More »
Only the Cool / La peau de torpedo (1970) Jean Delannoy, Stéphane Audran, Klaus Kinski, Lilli Palmer, Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir
A secret agent is murdered by his jealous wife who mistakenly interprets his absences from home as acts of infidelity. This triggers a deadly chain of events. Will she be next? Read More »