Marcel Duhamel
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: July 16, 1900
Deathday: March 06, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Pitiless Gendarme
Overview: The police superintendent may be good-natured but he has got a lot on his plate with all the witnesses that come to make a statement before him. They are all crazier than the others and although the superintendent is not too bad at keeping his self-control, he might well go nuts after all with this bunch of lunatics!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Ciboulette
Overview: Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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A Rare Bird
Overview: A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-06-06
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Courier of Lyons
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Overview: Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-27
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The Emigrant
Overview: Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-29
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Narcisse
Overview: To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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Picpus
Overview: Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-12
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Bizarre, Bizarre
Overview: A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-20
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Paris la belle
Overview: A look at Paris in 1928 in black and white and then color sequences filmed in the same places in 1959.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-30
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Prices and profits, the potato
Overview: Prix et Profits is a 20-minute short film originally made for educational purposes and released in 9.5mm format. As the title suggests, the film follows the supply chain of a potato, from farmers to consumers, and examines the mechanisms of capitalism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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It's in the Bag
Overview: Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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The Last Turning
Overview: Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-17
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Crossroads
Overview: A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Dossier AST-555
Overview: A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of the accomplices is repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who have died abroad and smuggling the drugs. A race is waged between the police and the culprits: the law triumphs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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Stormy Waters
Overview: A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-11-27
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Forfaiture
Overview: Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-24
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Overview: A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-24
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Pasha's Wives
Overview: Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover that, in a staunchly traditional society, she will not be a free woman there any longer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Tobie Is an Angel
Overview: Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-11-03
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Paris mange son pain
Overview: This short documents the important role played by bread in the daily life of the city of Paris.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-19
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Life Is Ours
Overview: A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-07
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Coral Reefs
Overview: The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Overview: A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-08
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