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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Le Corbeau 1943 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Raven
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Larquey, Ginette Leclerc, Helena Manson, Noel Roquevert, Antoine Balpetre, Micheline Francey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Sylvie, Liliane Maigne, Jean Brochard, Bernard Lancret
This film was controversial because it was paid for by the Nazis during World War II. It was remade in the United States under the title, "The 13th Letter." The plot involves inhabitants of a small French town who become upset when poison-pen letters begin to arrive revealing their hidden pasts.
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Madame Bovary 1933  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: Valentine Tessier, Pierre Renoir, Max Dearly, Daniel Lecourtois, Fernand Fabre, Helena Manson, Robert Le Vigan, Alice Tissot, Pierre Larquey, Monette Dinay, Louis Florencie, Romain Bouquet, Christiane Dor, Georges Cahuzac, Helena Manson
This early film adaptation of Flaubert's classic novel is set in 19th-century France and tells the story of Emma Bovary's (Valentine Tessier) scandalous romantic liaisons. Emma is a country girl who marries Charles Bovary (Pierre Renoir) hoping for romance and excitement in her life. But, the marriage proves tiresome to Emma, and she begins an affair with wealthy Rodolphe Boulanger (Fernand Fabre). After he abandons her, Emma finds another lover (Daniel Lecourtois) to fill her life, and despair takes over.
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| 1. Jenny Lamour (1947)
2. Le Corbeau (1943)
aka: The Raven
3. Madame Bovary (1933)
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