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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The Heart of a Nation 1943 N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Raimu, Louis Jouvet, Michele Morgan, Suzy Prim, Renee Devillers, Jean Mercanton, Georges Biscot, Colette Darfeuil, Rene Bergeron, Rene Genin, Fernand Ledoux, Charles Boyer
Events in the lives of Froment family members–throughout 70 years, from 1871 to 1940–are chronicled in this film, which was smuggled out of France and into the U.S. where it was dubbed and released in 1943. Narrated by Charles Boyer.
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Jenny Lamour 1947  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Mystery
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Suzy Delair, Bernard Blier, Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Charles Dullin, Rene Blancard, Pierre Larquey, Jean Daurand, Claudine Dupuis, Robert Dalban
Singer Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) yearns to be a star and consorts with a rich "dirty old man" to get ahead, which makes her husband, Maurice (Bernard Blier), jealous. Maurice even goes to the man's estate with a gun, finds the man already killed, and also finds that Jenny had smashed a bottle of champagne over the man's head when he had made a sexual advance. Thus, this excellent Hitchcock-like mystery begins with Maurice being the prime suspect.
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| 1. Bizarre Bizarre (1937)
2. The Heart of a Nation (1943)
3. Jenny Lamour (1947)
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