Maurice de Canonge
Also Known As: Maurice Cannon, Maurice Camille Louis de Canonge
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Toulon, Var, France
Birthday: March 18, 1894
Deathday: December 29, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Stowaway Olive
Overview: Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible. There, he discovers the belle, named Pearl, has a husband. Never mind such an insignificant detail, Olive tells himself as the dirigible takes off with a stowaway among the passengers. Unfortunately a storm breaks and the captain, realizing that there are thirteen people on board, decides to sacrifice one of them. And guess who ? Olive, of course...!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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When we were two
Overview: A charming little couple is watched by the misfortune that hides under the disturbing and enigmatic features of a femme fatale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-05-03
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Le coup de trois
Overview: Popolka takes advantage of the absence of his shrew of a wife to indulge in the delights of single life. His manager showers him with favors because he is in love with a young woman whom he believes to be Popolka's wife. When Madame Popolka returns, the situation becomes confused...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Symphonie D'Amour
Overview: A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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La Bataille du feu
Overview: Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-24
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Last Hour, Special Edition
Overview: A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
Overview: The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to steal the top secret phone number and then begins to implement chaos by phoning Washington and Moscow, telling the two powers that their respective spy chiefs are traitors. It's spy versus spy, agent versus double agent, counter spy against counter-counter spy in a rapidly increasing international crisis that finds its solution on the stage of Chinese theater in Barcelona, Spain as the spy leaders, the traitorous agent, a beautiful girl, three old ladies, a young man caught up in the chain of events and a troupe of acrobats collide head on in battle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Little French Girl
Overview: Madame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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The Alaskan
Overview: An Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-14
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The Day the Hot Line Got Hot
Overview: The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to steal the top secret phone number and then begins to implement chaos by phoning Washington and Moscow, telling the two powers that their respective spy chiefs are traitors. It's spy versus spy, agent versus double agent, counter spy against counter-counter spy in a rapidly increasing international crisis that finds its solution on the stage of Chinese theater in Barcelona, Spain as the spy leaders, the traitorous agent, a beautiful girl, three old ladies, a young man caught up in the chain of events and a troupe of acrobats collide head on in battle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Overview: Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
Overview: This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-11-02
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L'évadée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-08-16
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The Side Show of Life
Overview: An English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-21
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Trilby
Overview: The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-07-29
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Lovers of Vienna
Overview: Pierre and Georges both love Gretel who, in turn, is in love with Georges. Georges falls in love with another, Dolly, but the lover of the latter threatens to stop supporting him. Georges ends up finding Gretel, who forgives him, while Pierre steps aside to ensure their happiness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-02
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Les quatre vagabonds
Overview: Four classmates decide to perform a love song that their friend, Pierre, composed for Marie. Novac, another admirer of Marie, is murdered. Pierre suspects one of the four of being the killer, but incriminates himself, believing that Marie was in love with the killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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