Battle of the Rails 1946  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rene Clement
Cast: Jean Clarieux, Jean Daurand, Jacques Desagneaux, Tony Laurent, Robert Le Ray, Redon, Leon Pauleon, Fernand Rauzena, Pierre Lozach, Charles Boyer, Francois Joux, Pierre Latour, Michel Salina
French railroad workers participate in organized resistance in Rene Clement's neo-realistic film for which he used real locations as well as those who had actually participated in the sabotage against the Nazis during the World War II occupation.
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The Grand Illusion 1937  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Dita Parlo, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Gaston Modot, Jean Daste, Jacques Becker, Georges Peclet, Werner Florian, Sylvain Itkine, Albert Brouett, Claude Sainval, Michel Salina
Written while Hitler was beginning to make his move in Europe, this film examines the mindset of men involved in World War I and shows how the aristocratic backgrounds of French prisoner de Boldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and the German commandant of the prison camp, von Rauffenstein (Eric von Stroheim), contribute to them forming a bond that will have deadly consequences when they allow two French soldiers (Jean Gabin and Marcel Dalio) to escape. The negatives of the film survived, and the restored movie was released in 1999, complete with a new translation.
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Madame De... 1953  N/R, 171 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Earrings of Madame De...
Director: Max Ophuls
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer, Vittorio De Sica, Mireille Perrey, Jean Debucourt, Serge Lecointe, Lia Di Leo, Jean Galland, Hubert Noel, Paul Azais, Josselin, Madeleine Barbulee, Gerard Buhr, Michel Salina, Colette Regis
Set in Paris during the early 19th century, the story begins when the wife, Comtesse Louise de... (Danielle Darrieux), of General Andre de... (Charles Boyer) sells her earrings to pay off a gambling debt and then tells her husband that she lost them. This sets off a series of events as the earrings are again bought and resold, revealing depth in the characters of the general and his wife. Good acting and directing.
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| 1. Battle of the Rails (1946)
2. The Grand Illusion (1937)
3. Madame De... (1953)
aka: The Earrings of Madame De...
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