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Producer-director George King’s 1939 thriller The Face at the Window stars Tod Slaughter at his most succulently barnstorming as Chevalier Lucio del Gardo in a 19th-century tale of an 1880 Paris deranged killer who keeps […]
Director René Clair’s enchanting, exquisitely handled pre-World War One romantic comedy-drama Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] (1955), haunted with tragic emotions, is set in a French provincial garrison town. There Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne […]
Tragedy stalks the French countryside in director Dominik Moll’s 2019 thriller Only the Animals [Seules les bêtes], as Agatha Christie meets Claude Chabrol in an ingenious and engrossing, if highly unlikely yarn. The Christie bit […]
Director W S Van Dyke II’s 1938 black and white historical film Marie Antoinette is a lavish, elaborate, years-in-the-making epic from the MGM studio, with Norma Shearer as the French queen Marie Antoinette, who becomes […]
Director George Sidney’s 1952 MGM rip-snorting Technicolor adventure tale Scaramouche is based on the 1921 novel by Rafael Sabatini and has main star Stewart Granger swashing a florid buckle as André-Louis Moreau, who needs to wreak […]
Those cool and distinguished players Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli star in writer-director Claude Chabrol’s 1973 Hitchcockian French crime thriller Red Wedding [Les Noces rouges], loosely based on real events. Those cool and distinguished players […]
Director Richard Quine’s vibrant if messy and cheap-looking 1954 Technicolor musical So This Is Paris has a trio of Yankee sailors, Joe, Al and Davy (Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert), on furlough chasing […]