René Wheeler

Nacimiento : 1912-02-08, Paris, France

Muerte : 2000-12-11

Historia

René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales (1945) with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus (2004). Wheeler also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1955 heist film Rififi. Source: Article "René Wheeler" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Películas

Los chicos del coro
Story
En 1948 Clément Mathieu, profesor de música desempleado, acepta un puesto como profesor vigilante en un internado de reeducación de menores. El sistema represivo aplicado por el director conmociona a Mathieu. Enseñándoles música y canto coral a estos niños tan difíciles, Mathieu transformará sus vidas cotidianas.
Peace in the Fields
Screenplay
This is a film which was made in Belgium in the early '60s and was never released. However, it somehow got included in the American Oscar category for "Best Foreign Film," and was finally released in its home country in 1971. It explores the issues of prejudice and superstition in the Belgian countryside through the troubles of a middle-aged farmer whose mother has been accused of being a witch. In French, this picture is based on a true story which took place in the late 1920s and early '30s.
Chicken Soup
Adaptation
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
El crimen se paga
Scenario Writer
Film de sketches que giran en torno al mensaje del título.
Vers l'extase
Writer
Vers l'extase
Director
Méfiez-vous fillettes
Dialogue
Bold Adventure
Writer
Based on the book by Belgian XIX century author Charles de Coaster.
Forgive Our Trespasses
Screenplay
In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
The Wicked Go to Hell
Screenplay
Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
Rififi
Screenplay
Después de cumplir cinco años de condena, Tony Le Stephanois sale de prisión con la intención de cambiar de vida, pero se encuentra con que su antigua amante está con un conocido gángster. Así las cosas, y careciendo de recursos económicos, no le queda más remedio que volver a su vida pasada y reunirse con sus viejos compinches. Durante semanas prepara minuciosamente con ellos un golpe perfecto: el atraco a una inaccesible joyería de París.
El torero
Director
Un moderno matador de toros es víctima del odio de un protegido suyo. Además, una bella francesa se entremezclará en su vida.
Theodora, Slave Empress
Screenplay
Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
The Love of a Woman
Writer
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
The Love of a Woman
Dialogue
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Screenplay
A French/Italian motion picture drama covering the seven deadly sins in seven separate sections.
Fanfan la Tulipe
Writer
Fanfan es un apuesto joven campesino. Se une al ejército para escapar del matrimonio y porque una gitana predijo que obtendría la gloria y la hija del rey como esposa. Pero la gitana en realidad era Adeline, la hija del oficial de reclutamiento. Una vez que ha descubierto la estratagema, Fanfan se niega a olvidar este sueño y decide cumplir el destino de la predicción falsa. Fantásticas aventuras de capa y espada en un entorno del siglo XVIII, con una ligera crítica de la guerra y los poderosos.
Utopia
Writer
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
L'homme de joie
Writer
A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the services of a young man, known as "the man of joy".
The First Weapons
Director
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
Día de fiesta
Screenplay
Un cartero del pueblo sin sentido del humor entrega su correo en bicicleta el día que llega la feria ambulante a la ciudad. Se ve interrumpido por un cortometraje sobre la velocidad y la eficiencia estadounidenses y las bromas juguetonas de la gente del pueblo.
The Loves of Colette
Screenplay
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a diary where he writes of his relationship with Colette.
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Screenplay
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.
Danger of Death
Writer
Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to the pharmacy...
The Faceless Enemy
Screenplay
Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.
Alert Nights
Writer
Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield.
A Star to the Sun
Screenplay
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.
The Five Cents of Lavarede
Adaptation
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?