Drôle de drame (1937)

Review: Drôle de drame (1937)

Director: Marcel Carné

Cast: Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Louis Barrault, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont,

Françoise Rosay
Françoise Rosay
Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet
Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault
Michel Simon
Michel Simon
Jean-Pierre Aumont
Jean-Pierre Aumont

Plot: A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.

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Hong Kong’s Studio One cinema club

Hong Kong’s Studio One cinema club

During an eight-month visit to Hong Kong in 1980-81, I took out a membership in a cinema club called Studio One. I recently came across the eight monthly schedules for their screenings and discovered that my memory of the movies I’d been to […]

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