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Tag Archives: René Clair
The Grand Maneuver / 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 / 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 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

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 »
La beauté du diable / Beauty and the Devil (1950) René Clair, Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Professor Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as an alchemist in a circa-1700 university, despairs at still knowing nothing of the true secrets of nature Read More »
Les fêtes galantes / The Lace Wars (1965) René Clair, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Marie Dubois, Comedy, History, War

Having lost a battle against the Prince of Beaulieu, Marechal d’Allenberg returns to his castle with his few remaining followers. Read More »