Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. Read More »
Tag Archives: René Clair
Two Timid Souls AKA Les deux timides (1928) René Clair, Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy Read More »
Man About Town AKA Le silence est d’or (1947) René Clair, Maurice Chevalier, François Périer, Marcelle Derrien
1910 : A friend leaves his daughter, Madeleine, with Emile a French film producer. Emile falls in love with her. Read More »
Paris Asleep AKA Paris qui dort (1925) René Clair, Charles Martinelli, Louis Pré Fils, Albert Préjean
Early roots of sci-fi magic are given to us in the form of a scientist who invents Read More »
July 14 AKA Quatorze Juillet (1933) René Clair, Annabella, George Rigaud, Raymond Cordy
Jean is a young cab driver. Anna, a flower-girl neighbour, is in love with him. Read More »
Le million (1931) René Clair, Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert
Michel, a Parisian artist, is being hounded by numerous impatient creditors. Read More »
The Grand Maneuver AKA Les Grandes manoeuvres (1955) René Clair, Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly
A French lieutenant makes a bet that he can seduce any woman in town in the two weeks Read More »
The Prey of the Wind AKA La proie du vent (1927) René Clair, Sandra Milovanoff, Lillian Hall-Davis, Jean Murat
An early aviator crash lands in a remote European country where he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Read More »
And Then There Were None (1945) René Clair, Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward
Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn’t on the island. Read More »
The Gates of Paris AKA Porte des Lilas (1957) René Clair, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Brassens, Henri Vidal
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone—anyone—and his friend, an artist Read More »
The Flame of New Orleans (1941) René Clair, Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young
French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker Read More »
It Happened Tomorrow (1944) René Clair, Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Lawrence ‘Larry’ Stevens is an ambitious reporter of The Evening News. Read More »
The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge (1925) René Clair, Albert Préjean, Sandra Milovanoff, Paul Ollivier
A man goes to the lonely estate of the mysterious Dr. Renault, whose strange experiments release the man’s spirit from his body. Read More »
Beauties of the Night (1952) René Clair, Gérard Philipe, Martine Carol, Gina Lollobrigida
Young Claude, teacher by day, is a struggling composer by night. Alas, everyone around him seems to prefer noise to music. Read More »
Un chapeau de paille d’Italie / An Italian Straw Hat (1928) René Clair, Alice Tissot, Alexis Bondireff, Marise Maia, Comedy
On his way through the woods to his marriage, Fadinard’s horse eats the hat of a married lady spending here a few moments with her lover. Read More »