Bizarre Bizarre 1937  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Marcel Carne
Cast: Michel Simon, Francoise Rosey, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nadine Vogel, Pierre Alcover, Henri Guisol, Annie Carriel, Jeanne Lory
Irwin Molyneux (Michel Simon) is a successful writer of mystery novels–with the ideas coming from his daughter. His cousin (Louis Jouvet) arrives unexpectedly and, with the servants gone, Irwin's embarrassed wife (Francoise Rosay) must take on cooking duties while hiding in the kitchen. The cousin thinks that Irwin is acting suspiciously and tells the police that he thinks Irwin has murdered his wife. The mix-up gets resolved in this comedy.
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La Chienne 1931  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: The Bitch
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Michel Simon, Janie Mareze, Georges Flamant, Magdeleine Berubet, Roger Gaillard, Jean Gehret, Alexandre Rignault, Lucien Mancini, Romain Bouquet, Max Dalban, Courme, Pierre Destys, Henri Guisol, Sylvain Itkine, Jane Pierson
Painfully shy Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon) paints pictures as an escape from his miserable home life with his nagging wife, Adele (Magdeleine Berubet). One night, he meets Lulu (Janie Mareze) and becomes her lover, but Lulu is really a manipulative prostitute working for her pimp, Dede (Georges Flamant). Together, Lulu and Dede contrive to sell Maurice's paintings for their own financial benefit. Finally, Maurice lashes out and kills Lulu. Police question him but believe he does not fit the pattern of a murderer. In an intriguing twist, it is Dede who is charged with, and convicted of, Lulu's murder.
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Lola Montes 1955 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sins of Lola Montes
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook, Ivan Desny, Will Quadflieg, Oskar Werner, Paulette Dubost, Lise Delamare, Henri Guisol, Jean Galland
Lola Montes (Martine Carol) is a member of a circus troupe who, through flashbacks, remembers her more illustrious past when her fortunes were reversed. Ophuls' last, and perhaps best, film.
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| 1. Bizarre Bizarre (1937)
2. La Chienne (1931)
aka: The Bitch
3. Lola Montes (1955)
aka: Sins of Lola Montes
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