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Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant is a French actor, screenwriter and director who has enjoyed international acclaim. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival as well as the Best Actor Award at the César Awards 2013, Trintignant was born in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France, the son of Claire and Raoul Trintignant, an industrialist. At the age of twenty, Trintignant moved to Paris to study drama, trintignant’s acting was interrupted for several years by mandatory military service. After serving in Algiers, he returned to Paris and resumed his work in film and he had the leading male role in the classic A Man and a Woman, which at the time was the most successful French film ever screened in the foreign market. Throughout the 1970s, Trintignant starred in films and in 1983 he made his first English language feature film. Following this, he starred in François Truffauts final film, Confidentially Yours, and reprised his role in the sequel A Man. In 1994, he starred in Krzysztof Kieślowskis last film, Three Colors, though he takes an occasional film role, he has, as of late, been focusing essentially on his stage work. After a 14-year gap, Trintignant came back on screen for Michael Hanekes film Amour, haneke had sent Trintignant the script, which had been written specifically for him. Trintignant comes from a wealthy family and he is the nephew of race car driver, Louis Trintignant, who was killed in 1933 while practising on the Péronne racetrack in Picardy. Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant, was a Formula One driver who won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the 24 hours of Le Mans. Raised in and around automobile racing, Jean-Louis Trintignant was the choice of film director Claude Lelouch for the starring role of race car driver in the 1966 film, A Man. He suffered a leg injury from an accident in June 2007. His first wife was actress Stéphane Audran and his second wife, Nadine Marquand, was also an actress as well as a screenwriter and director. They had three children, Vincent Trintignant, Pauline and Marie Trintignant, at the age of 17, Marie performed in La terrazza alongside her father and later became a successful actress in her own right. She was killed at the age of 41 by her boyfriend, singer Bertrand Cantat, in a room in Vilnius. Trintignant is good friends with Anouk Aimée and it was he who recommended Aimée to film director Claude Lelouch for the female lead in A Man and a Woman. Jean-Louis Trintignant biography on newwavefilm. com Jean-Louis Trintignant at the Internet Movie Database Jean-Louis Trintignant at New Wave Film
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Robert Ryan
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Robert Bushnell Ryan was an American actor who most often portrayed hardened cops and ruthless villains. Ryan was born in Chicago, Illinois, the first child of Mable Arbutus, a secretary, and Timothy Aloysius Ryan and he was of Irish and English descent. Ryan was raised Catholic and educated at Loyola Academy and he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1932, having held the schools heavyweight boxing title all four years of his attendance. After graduation, the 6′4 Ryan found employment as a stoker on a ship, a WPA worker, Ryan attempted to make a career in show business as a playwright, but was forced to start acting in order to support himself. He studied acting in Hollywood and appeared on stage and in small parts during the early 1940s, beginning with The Ghost Breakers and Queen of the Mob. At Camp Pendleton, he befriended writer and future director Richard Brooks, whose novel, The Brick Foxhole, Ryans breakthrough film role was as an anti-Semitic killer in Crossfire, a film noir based on Brookss novel. The role won Ryan his sole career Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actor, from then on, Ryans specialty was tough/tender roles, finding particular expression in the films of directors such as Nicholas Ray, Jean Renoir, Robert Wise and Samuel Fuller. In Rays On Dangerous Ground he portrayed a city cop finding redemption while solving a rural murder. In Wises The Set-Up, he played a boxer who is brutally punished for refusing to take a dive. He also appeared in several war films, including The Longest Day and Battle of the Bulge. He also played John the Baptist in MGMs Technicolor epic King of Kings and was the villainous Claggart in Peter Ustinovs adaptation of Billy Budd, in his later years, Ryan continued playing significant roles in major films. Among the most notable were The Dirty Dozen, The Professionals, the Iceman Cometh and Executive Action both were released in November 1973, after Ryans death. Ryan also played the characters in Shakespeares Coriolanus and Othello. Ryan made his small screen debut in 1955 as Abraham Lincoln in the Screen Directors Playhouse adaptation of Christopher Morleys story. As he explained to reporters, despite financial considerations, Ryan preferred to steer clear of any TV series commitment, The only money in TV is in the series, and I want to stay out of those. Sure, I might make a million or so in a series, Ryan would remain true to these convictions, appearing in many television series, but always as a guest star. Notable appearances include his portrayal of Franklin Hoppy-Hopp in the 1964 episode Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree. on the NBC medical drama about psychiatry, The Eleventh Hour. Similarly, he guest starred as Lloyd Osment in the 1964 episode Better Than a Dead Lion in the ABC psychiatric series, Breaking Point
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French language
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French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages, French has evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues doïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to Frances past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, a French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is a language in 29 countries, most of which are members of la francophonie. As of 2015, 40% of the population is in Europe, 35% in sub-Saharan Africa, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas. French is the fourth-most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union, 1/5 of Europeans who do not have French as a mother tongue speak French as a second language. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 17th and 18th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa, most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, in particular Gabon, Algeria, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast. In 2015, French was estimated to have 77 to 110 million native speakers, approximately 274 million people are able to speak the language. The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie estimates 700 million by 2050, in 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked French the third most useful language for business, after English and Standard Mandarin Chinese. Under the Constitution of France, French has been the language of the Republic since 1992. France mandates the use of French in official government publications, public education except in specific cases, French is one of the four official languages of Switzerland and is spoken in the western part of Switzerland called Romandie, of which Geneva is the largest city. French is the language of about 23% of the Swiss population. French is also a language of Luxembourg, Monaco, and Aosta Valley, while French dialects remain spoken by minorities on the Channel Islands. A plurality of the worlds French-speaking population lives in Africa and this number does not include the people living in non-Francophone African countries who have learned French as a foreign language. Due to the rise of French in Africa, the total French-speaking population worldwide is expected to reach 700 million people in 2050, French is the fastest growing language on the continent. French is mostly a language in Africa, but it has become a first language in some urban areas, such as the region of Abidjan, Ivory Coast and in Libreville. There is not a single African French, but multiple forms that diverged through contact with various indigenous African languages, sub-Saharan Africa is the region where the French language is most likely to expand, because of the expansion of education and rapid population growth
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Italian language
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By most measures, Italian, together with Sardinian, is the closest to Latin of the Romance languages. Italian is a language in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City. Italian is spoken by minorities in places such as France, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Crimea and Tunisia and by large expatriate communities in the Americas. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages, Italian is the fourth most studied language in the world. Italian is a major European language, being one of the languages of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is the third most widely spoken first language in the European Union with 65 million native speakers, including Italian speakers in non-EU European countries and on other continents, the total number of speakers is around 85 million. Italian is the working language of the Holy See, serving as the lingua franca in the Roman Catholic hierarchy as well as the official language of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Italian is known as the language of music because of its use in musical terminology and its influence is also widespread in the arts and in the luxury goods market. Italian has been reported as the fourth or fifth most frequently taught foreign language in the world, Italian was adopted by the state after the Unification of Italy, having previously been a literary language based on Tuscan as spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was influenced by other Italian languages and to some minor extent. Its vowels are the second-closest to Latin after Sardinian, unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latins contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive, however, Italian as a language used in Italy and some surrounding regions has a longer history. What would come to be thought of as Italian was first formalized in the early 14th century through the works of Tuscan writer Dante Alighieri, written in his native Florentine. Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language, and thus the dialect of Florence became the basis for what would become the language of Italy. Italian was also one of the recognised languages in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Italy has always had a dialect for each city, because the cities. Those dialects now have considerable variety, as Tuscan-derived Italian came to be used throughout Italy, features of local speech were naturally adopted, producing various versions of Regional Italian. Even in the case of Northern Italian languages, however, scholars are not to overstate the effects of outsiders on the natural indigenous developments of the languages
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David Goodis
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David Loeb Goodis was an American writer of crime fiction, noted for his prolific output of short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre. A native of Philadelphia, Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years. Yet, throughout his life he maintained a deep identification with the city of his birth, Philadelphia. ”Goodis was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Goodis was a Russian-Jewish émigré born in 1882, who had arrived in America with his mother in 1890. David Goodiss mother Mollie Halpern was born in Pennsylvania also into a family of Russian-Jewish émigrés, in Philadelphia, Goodiss father co-owned a newspaper dealership and later went into the textile business as the William Goodis Company. A brother, Jerome, born in 1920, died of meningitis at age three, in 1922, another brother, Herbert, was born into the family. In high school Goodis was engaged in student affairs, editing the newspaper, serving as student council president. He also had the distinction of being chosen valedictorian for the class of 1935. As a college student, he continued and expanded on the interests he had pursued as a school student. It was during this period he attempted his hand at novel writing. The novel was never published, and no copy of it has been discovered, Goodis later claimed, The title was prophetic. Eventually I threw it into the furnace, Goodis graduated from Temple University in 1938 with a degree in journalism. While working at an agency, Goodis started writing his first novel. The first pulp story published under his own name appeared in Gangland Detective Stories, over a five-and-a-half-year period, according to some sources, he produced five million words for the pulp magazines. While the quantity of his output far eclipses that of his predecessors Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, unlike theirs, during the 1940s, Goodis scripted for radio adventure serials, including Hop Harrigan, House of Mystery, and Superman. Novels he wrote during the early 1940s were rejected by publishers, Delmer Daves directed what is now regarded as a classic film noir, and a first edition of the 1946 hardcover is valued at more than $800. Arriving in Hollywood, Goodis signed a contract with Warner Brothers. In 1947, Goodis wrote the script for The Unfaithful, a remake of Somerset Maughams The Letter, some of his scripts were never produced, such as Of Missing Persons and an adaptation of Raymond Chandlers The Lady in the Lake. Working with director Delmer Daves, he wrote a treatment for a film, Up Till Now
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Aldo Ray
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Aldo Ray was an American actor. Ray was born Aldo Da Re in Pen Argyl in Northampton County in eastern Pennsylvania, to an Italian family with five brothers and one sister. His family moved to the town of Crockett in northern California when Aldo was four years old, his father worked as a laborer at the C & H Sugar Refinery. He attended John Swett High School, where he made the football team, in 1944, at age 18, during World War II, Aldo entered the United States Navy, serving as a frogman until 1946, he saw action at Okinawa with UDT-17. Upon leaving the Navy in May 1946 he returned to Crockett and he studied and played football at Vallejo Junior College, then entered the University of California at Berkeley to study political science. He left college in order to run for the office of Constable of the Crockett Judicial District in Contra Costa County California, I always knew I was going to be a big man but I thought it was going to be in politics, he said. In April 1950 Columbia Studios sent a unit to San Francisco to look for some athletes to appear in a film they were making called Saturdays Hero, aldos brother Guido saw an item on the San Francisco Chronicle about the auditions and asked his brother to drive him there. Director David Miller was more interested in Ray than his brother because of his voice, also and he later recalled, They. said Whats wrong with your voice kid. If youre sick you dont belong here, I said, No, no, no, this is the way Ive always spoken. Ray signed a contract and was sent to Los Angeles for a screen test and he was cast in the small role of a cynical college football player opposite John Derek and Donna Reed. Ray worked on the film between the primary and general elections and he was elected constable on 6 June. I was 23 and a sort of child bride to the voters, the guy I ran against was a 16-year incumbent, and I destroyed him with 80 percent of the vote. I was going to work my way up to the U. S. Senate, see, Columbia picked up their option on Rays services, and signed him to a seven-year contract. Of all the people in the picture they took up only one option - mine, and I said, thank you, good bye. Im going home where I can be a big fish in my small pond and you can take this town and shove it. Columbia refused to him from his contract and put him under suspension. I told them I couldnt care less, they could give me whatever they wanted, Ray started his new job in November 1950. After several months Ray found the quiet life, monotonous, so he contacted Max Arnow, talent director at Columbia, and expressed interest in appearing in more movies
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Lea Massari
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Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari is an Italian actress and singer. She was born Anna Maria Massetani in Rome, but changed her name to Lea Massari when she was 22 and she worked both in Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leones debut The Colossus of Rhodes and international films such as The Things of Life. She was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975, after appearing in Francesco Rosis Christ Stopped at Eboli, she won the Nastro dArgento Best supporting Actress award
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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The Walls of Malapaga
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The Walls of Malapaga, is a 1949 Franco-Italian film co-production made by Francinex and Italia Produzione. It was directed by René Clément and produced by Alfredo Guarini from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi dAmico and Alfredo Guarini adapted by Jean Aurenche, the music score was by Roman Vlad and the cinematography by Louis Page. The film stars Jean Gabin and Isa Miranda, Gabin is a French criminal, Pierre Arrignon, on the run who finds himself in Genoa, Italy, and falls in love with a local girl, Marta Manfredini. The film is set in Italy but the dialogue is primarily in French, the Walls of Malapaga at the Internet Movie Database
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Forbidden Games
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Forbidden Games, is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyers novel Jeux Interdits. While not initially successful in France, the film was a hit elsewhere and it won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, a Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film in the United States, and a Best Film from any Source at the British Academy Film Awards. It is June 1940, during the Battle of France and she quickly becomes attached to Michel. Michels father first suspects that Michels brothers cross was stolen from the graveyard by his neighbour, eventually, the father finds out that Michel has stolen the cross. Meanwhile, the French gendarmes come to the Dollé household in order to take Paulette, Michel cannot bear the thought of her leaving and tells his father that he would tell him where the stolen crosses are, but in return he should not give Paulette to the gendarmes. Upon its release, it was lambasted by some, who said it was a vicious and unfair picture of the peasantry of France, at the 25th Academy Awards, Forbidden Games won an out-of-competition Special Award as Best Foreign Language Film. In December 1952, at the 24th National Board of Review Awards it was chosen as one of years five top foreign films. At the 1952 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, it won for Best Foreign Language Film, decades after its release, David Ehrenstein called it deeply touching and wrote, Fosseys is quite simply one of the most uncanny pieces of acting ever attempted by a youngster. Clément’s sensitivity doubtless accounts for much of what we see here, the main thee of the soundtrack is an arrangement of the tune Romance. Forbidden Games was released on Laserdisc by Criterion Collection, who also released it on DVD. Forbidden Games at the Internet Movie Database Forbidden Games at AllMovie Forbidden Games at Rotten Tomatoes Criterion Collection essay by Peter Matthews
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Knave of Hearts (film)
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Knave of Hearts is a 1954 film about the adventures of a French philanderer in Paris and London. In France, it was released as Monsieur Ripois, in the United States, it was originally released as Lovers, Happy Lovers. Then later re-released as Lover Boy, the film, which was a French-British co-production, stars Gérard Philipe in the title role, and was directed by René Clément. The film was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize, rose Margo Field - Doris Braddock Julie Anslow - Maisie Smith Harry Towb - Stewart Gerald Campion - Harry Knave of Hearts at the Internet Movie Database
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This Angry Age
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This Angry Age is a 1958 drama film directed by René Clément and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras 1950 novel, The Sea Wall, the film stars Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano. The original novel was adapted again in 2008 by Rithy Panh as The Sea Wall, twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the familys run-down rice plantation, however the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude, Anthony Perkins as Joseph Dufresne Silvana Mangano as Suzanne Dufresne Richard Conte as Michael Jo Van Fleet as Mme. Dufresne Alida Valli as Claude Nehemiah Persoff as Albert Yvonne Sanson as Carmen Guido Celano as Bart Clément purchased the rights to the Duras novel in 1956. The original male lead was supposed to have been James Dean, Mangano, the wife of the films producer, was cast in the female lead. Clément shot the film in wide-screen Technirama and Technicolor and he was unable to film in Indochina, the setting of the original novel, as it no longer existed. Nor could he film in the newly independent Vietnam, as nationalist struggles continued there, thus, Clément reconstructed the storys setting in Thailand. The New York Times described Clément as a specialist in that sort of tragedy that evolves from the inability of deeply pained people to face their own feelings, the reviewer also praised the great pictorial beauty and admirable psychological truth of Cléments film. The reviewer also praised how the crumbling of the dam against the assaults of the stands as an image of what is going on within the family. The film was also a success in France, being lauded as a complete success. He added that For Clément, the thing is that the film he is making costs more than the last one. Duras was dismayed by the absence of certain themes that were important in her novel. She said she felt betrayed and dishonoured by the film, list of American films of 1958 This Angry Age at the Internet Movie Database
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Purple Noon
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Purple Noon, is a 1960 film directed by René Clément, loosely based on the 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. The film, principally in French, contains sequences in Italian. The films source novel was adapted again in 1999, under the title, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Matt Damon, Jude Law. The American Tom Ripley has been sent to Italy to persuade his friend, Philippe Greenleaf, to return to the United States. Philippe intends to do no such thing and the impoverished Tom enjoys living a life of luxury, Tom is fixated on Philippe and his girlfriend Marge and covets the other mans life. Philippe eventually grows bored with his friends fawning and becomes cruel, the final straw is when, during a yachting trip, Philippe strands Tom in the dinghy and leaves him to lie in the sun for hours. Back on board, Tom hatches a plan to kill Philippe, first, he leaves evidence of Philippes philandering for an outraged Marge to find. After Marge goes ashore, Philippe confronts Tom, who admits his plan quite casually, Philippe, believing it to be a joke, plays along and asks Tom for the plans details. Suddenly frightened, Philippe offers Tom a substantial sum to him and Marge alone but Tom states that he can obtain this sum anyway. At last pretending to accept his offer, Tom stabs Philippe to death as the latter screams Marges name and he casts the body overboard and returns to port. Upon returning to shore, Tom informs Marge that Philippe has decided to stay behind and he rents a large suite in a Rome hotel. When Philippes suspicious friend, Freddie Miles, begins to suspect the truth while staying in the same hotel, Freddies body is soon found and the Italian police inevitably get involved. Tom continues his charade, switching between his identity and Philippes, depending on what the situation demands, after carrying out an elaborate scheme to implicate Philippe in Freddies murder, Tom forges a suicide note and a will, leaving the Greenleaf fortune to Marge. In the aftermath, Tom has survived a string of close shaves, thrown the Italian police off his trail. He even succeeds in seducing Marge, with whom he begins openly cohabiting, when Philippes yacht is being moved into dry dock, his decomposed body is found attached to the boat, because the anchor cable used to sink his corpse had become tangled around the propeller. The film ends with Tom being unknowingly called toward the police, Purple Noon was lauded by critics and made Delon a star. In 1962, Clément and Paul Gégauff won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Foreign Film Screenplay and it enjoys a loyal cult following even today, with fans including film director Martin Scorsese. The result, while arguably truer to the events of Highsmiths book, is vastly inferior, to say it suffers by comparison to Purple Noon is an understatement
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The Joy of Living
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The Joy of Living is a 1961 Italian-French comedy film directed by René Clément. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, the story is set in Rome, in the year 1921. Ulysses enrolls in the Italian Fascist party because he cannot find any employment, the first task entrusted to him by the party leads Ulysses to the printer Fossati, where hes hired as an apprentice. This brings him into contact with a family of anarchists, who turn him into a reluctant hero for love of the beautiful Franca. However, at a time when he must make a choice, Ulysses obeys neither the anarchists nor the fascists
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Joy House (film)
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Joy House is a 1964 black-and-white mystery/thriller film starring Jane Fonda, Alain Delon, and Lola Albright. It is based on the 1954 novel by Day Keene and it was Clements second film for MGM. In Monte Carlo, Marc, a cardsharp, escapes American gangsters who have been ordered to kill him by the boss of a New York gang because he had an affair with the bosss wife. Marc hides in a mission for the poor where Barbara, a widow, finds him. At Barbaras chateau, Melinda, Barbaras niece, becomes attracted to him, Marc discovers that Barbara is hiding her lover, Vincent, in the secret rooms and passageways of the chateau. She and Vincent plan to murder Marc so that Vincent may use his passport in escaping to South America, Marc and Barbara begin an affair but are discovered by Vincent, who then kills Barbara but is himself killed by the American gangsters, who mistake him for Marc. He is her prisoner, just as Vincent had been her aunts and she later recalled that the director made it without a script, I didnt speak very good French then, and I never understood much of what was going on. The only people who really dug that movie, for reason, were junkies. They used to come up to me and give me a big wink, but Im awfully glad I did it because it got me into France and I met Vadim. Joy House at the Internet Movie Database Joy House at Rotten Tomatoes Joy House at the TCM Movie Database
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Rider on the Rain
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Rider on the Rain is a 1970 French mystery thriller film starring Charles Bronson, directed by René Clément, produced by Serge Silberman, with film music composed by Francis Lai. Opening with a quotation from Lewis Carroll to suggest that the heroine is like Alice in Wonderland, Mellie, newly married to Toni, an airline navigator who is away at work, sees a strange man get off a bus. In a shop trying on a dress to wear to a next day. When she goes home, he sneaks into the house, ties her up, realising after she has freed herself that he is still in the house, she gets out a shotgun and kills him. Then she drives the body to a cliff and tips it into the sea, next day at the wedding an uninvited American called Dobbs speaks to her. A body has found and he claims she killed him. The day after that, when her husband is away again, Dobbs sneaks into their house and she begins to think that the rapist had business with Toni, possibly drug related, and that is why Dobbs is so persistent. She goes with him to the bank and, drawing out all she has, but he doesnt want money, just the truth. Next morning Mellie finds the rapists travel bag, containing 60,000 US dollars, sneaking into Dobbs hotel room, she searches it and discovers that he is a US Army colonel on a secret mission. He turns up and tells her a woman who works at a restaurant in Paris has been arrested for the murder. Distraught that an innocent woman is being charged, Mellie jumps onto a plane to Paris and goes to the restaurant and this proves to be a brothel, where three criminals question Mellie roughly about the dead man. Dobbs, who has been trailing her, breaks in and saves her, taking her home, Dobbs reveals that the corpse is not that of the rapist but another mans. The rapist was an escapee from a US military prison who had attacked three woman in fashion before Mellie. She then tells him where she tipped the body, which is found by police frogmen, for Dobbs the case is closed and he does not tell the police about Mellie. Nor does he mention the 60,000 dollars, in a closing homage to Alfred Hitchcock, it is revealed that the rapists name was MacGuffin. Marlène Jobert - Mélancolie Mellie Mau Charles Bronson - Dobbs Annie Cordy - Juliette Corinne Marchand - woman Jill Ireland - Nicole Jean Piat - M. In 1971, it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, was nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards, the film was a big hit in France. Bronsons agent Paul Kohner said it was the point for Bronson -
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Wanted: Babysitter
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Wanted, Babysitter is a 1975 Italian-French-German thriller–drama film directed by René Clément at his final film before his death on March 17,1996. The film stars Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Vic Morrow, Robert Vaughn, a naive young girl is forcefully kidnapped while babysitting the son of a wealthy food mogul. Her and the boy are held hostage by an ex-stuntman and a movie star. The film was released on DVD on June 1,2004, initially, Wanted, Babysitter was digitally remastered on January 2,2015. Oakland, California, University of California Press, Wanted, Babysitter at the Internet Movie Database Wanted, Babysitter at Rotten Tomatoes
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