André Versini
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Biography: André Versini (1923–1966) was a French film actor and screenwriter. He also directed a couple of films. He was a writer and actor, known for The Fabiani Affair (1962), Rue barrée (1967) and Stranger from Hong-Kong (1963). He was married to Vanna Urbino. He died on December 8, 1966 in Paris, France.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
Birthday: November 23, 1923
Deathday: December 08, 1966
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Gender: Male
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It Happened in Aden
Overview: During a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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The Cat
Overview: During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-19
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La rue des bouches peintes
Overview: An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-07-22
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3rd chimney on the right
Overview: The difficulty in finding accommodation in Paris, will cause many stories, between some colorful characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-21
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No Pity for Women
Overview: The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He jumps at the chance but quickly realizes that, in this hushed little world, masters and servants play comedy and know very well that he is only a double of Alain. In fact, the industrialist was assassinated.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Overview: Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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La maison du printemps
Overview: Four young girls fall in love with the same man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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Firemen's Ball
Overview: 1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-13
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Thus Finishes the Night
Overview: In the train that takes her back home, Catheine Beryl meets concert pianist André Fuger, a childhood friend of her husband's. The musician is both good-looking and seductive and Catherine soon falls for his charms. The two young people spend the evening and the following night together. The next day, a lost powder compact gives the affair away. At a loss, Catherine runs away from her husband but she has an accident. When she regains consciousness in her hospital bed, Catherine finds Georges, her husband, by her side, pretending nothing has happened.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-17
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La Veuve et l'innocent
Overview: Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-24
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The Straw Lover
Overview: The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the spouses together and makes the business of the gunsmith prosper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-05
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Ils ont vingt ans
Overview: The former "J3" who used to be pupils at the Coutances high school are currently students in Paris. It is now a time for love stories and sentimental crises. For the moment all the boys'hearts beat for Anita, a princess, who is the splitting image of their philosophy teacher at Coutances, Mademoiselle Bravard.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-15
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Crimson Curtain
Overview: Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Deux de l'escadrille
Overview: During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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La grande bretèche
Overview: Transposed to the 1960s, this short story by Balzac tells the story of a jealous husband who hears a door slam when he returns home. His wife swears there was no one there, but refuses to open the oil tank. To get to the bottom of it, the husband has fuel delivered. To what fatal outcome will their stubbornness lead them?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-14
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Les pépées au service secret
Overview: Elvire, Nathalie and Christine, three young ladies with a proven track record, are called in by the Secret Service to retrieve coveted papers concerning a new explosive. Introduced to a fearsome environment thanks to a female helper, they face kidnappings, play a double game, toil endlessly, lend helicopters and finally triumph, smiling, after a breathtaking fight.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-10
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Anyone Can Kill Me
Overview: The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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Mandrin
Overview: It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Headlines of Destruction
Overview: Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, rejects him. Shortly afterwards, Rupert discovers Alice dead, murdered. Fearing charges, he asks one of his reporters, Barney Morgan, to direct suspicion to Michel. But Michel's lawyer shows Barney that the husband is innocent.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-11-10
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The Secret of Helene Marimon
Overview: At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Marimon's death. Outraged, Hélène drives him away. After many years, Jacques reappears to learn that Hélène had once given him a daughter. Hélène, unwilling to reveal anything to young Dominique, forces the man she loves to leave her country. Dominique not only gets her mother to talk, but also reunites those separated by fate.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-13
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Cherchez la femme
Overview: Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a breeze, even when she's kidnapped by Mike Cortez's men. A young journalist, Mercier, who tried to defend her and was forced to follow her, doesn't share her optimism and manages to escape. Barbara is sequestered because her father has caught wind of a diamond deal. If he renounces the customs action, his daughter will be returned to him. Mercier, with the help of a couple of loyal friends, discovers the instigator of the traffic, a member of the board of directors, and finds Barbara, still as petulant as ever.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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The Captive
Overview: Two gun runners, Le Doc and Rougier, save and tend the only survivor of a plane crash into the Vietnamese jungle. When they realize the man named Hamelin is a renowned electronics engineer, they decide to keep him hostage and to release him in exchange for a high ransom. Things get complicated with the coming of Sylvie, Hamelin's wife in search of her missing husband. To make matters worse, Wong,a Chinese gang leader and former ally of the traffickers, turns against them and attacks them with his men.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Mission to Venice
Overview: An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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Atomic Agent
Overview: Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Queen Margot
Overview: Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-25
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Leguignon the Healer
Overview: Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and possesses the fluid. His wife sees the benefits of this gift and urges Diogene to exercise his power, particularly on a wealthy old man, M. Coq. Arlette Leguignon, however, is in love with a young doctor, who is violently opposed to her future father-in-law. Leguignon ends up condemned and, disgusted, no longer wants to look after others. When Mr. Coq dies, making him his legatee, Leguignon has to contend with the Coq family. This time, Doctor Martinet comes to his defense. The inheritance is used to build a clinic where Leguignon can carry out his experiments as a magnetizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-07-18
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Venetian Honeymoon
Overview: There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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They Were Five
Overview: Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-23
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Une fille épatante
Overview: Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom she then blackmails, pays her a sum to cover her debts. In reality, Mareuil, a policeman, is keeping an eye on Atcheminov, the owner of the car, but, wanting to prove that he is an unscrupulous trafficker, he comes up against Dominique's impetuosity time and again. It all ends up like in a good comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-06
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Tonight the Skirts Fly
Overview: At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-14
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Give 'em Hell
Overview: During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer and adventurer Johnny Jordan is looking for a new gig. His opportunity comes in the form of a local shipping tycoon and importer Moreno who offers Johnny a job after Johnny saves Moreno from an armed mugger on the waterfront.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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