La Bandera 1935  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Escape from Yesterday
Director: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Annabella, Robert Le Vigan, Raymond Aimos, Pierre Renoir, Gaston Modot, Margo Lion, Reine Paulet, Charles Granval, Viviane Romance
After committing a murder, Pierre (Jean Gabin) flees France, joins the Spanish Foreign Legion, and ends up in North Africa. Detective Fernando Lucas (Robert Le Vigan) follows. Both fall in love with beautiful Arab Aischa (Annabella) and must eventually join forces to fight off attacking Arabs.
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Nada 1974 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: The Nada Gang
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Fabio Testi, Mariangela Melato, Maurice Garrel, Michel Duchaussoy, Michel Aumont, Didier Kaminka, Lou Castel, Katia Romanoff, Andre Falcon, Viviane Romance, Francois Perrot, Henri Attal
The Nada Gang, as the group of anarchist terrorists is called, kidnap an American ambassador, leaving death in their wake. They hole up, and as they begin to bicker, the government and police gain information about them and home in on their location. A good thriller by Chabrol.
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Princess Tam Tam 1935 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Edmond T. Greville
Cast: Josephine Baker, Albert Prejean, Robert Arnoux, Germaine Aussey, Georges Peclet, Viviane Romance, Jean Galland, Teddy Michaud, Henri Richard
French novelist Max de Mirecourt (Albert Prejean) fights with his wife (Germaine Aussey) and travels with his friend, Coton (Robert Arnoux), to North Africa to clear his head. In Africa, he meets a beautiful, talented Bedouin girl, Alwina (Josephine Baker). He educates her, writes a novel about her, and introduces her to Paris society as Princess Tam Tam. Meanwhile, his wife has made him believe that she is having an affair with a Black prince. The possibility of interracial affairs between the two couples caused this film to be banned in the United States at the time of its release.
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| 1. La Bandera (1935)
aka: Escape from Yesterday
2. Nada (1974)
aka: The Nada Gang
3. Princess Tam Tam (1935)
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