Edmond T. Gréville
Nacimiento : 1906-06-20, Nice, France
Muerte : 1966-05-26
Historia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director.
The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde.
Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence), and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.
He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Le Port du désir (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man.
In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was L'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel.
In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident.
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Una serie de horribles asesinatos se suceden en un antiguo castillo a orillas del Rhin. Tanto la propietaria de la casa como el doctor de la localidad, e incluso un agente del FBI, tratarán de aclarar los extraños sucesos.
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A young beautiful teacher is transfered to a remote island's school, where her colleague (also the principal of the school) falls in love with her. This banned love provokes the jealousy of the principal's wife and makes her seek revenge.
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Un nuevo rico vuelve a París después de hacer fortuna en África. Busca esposa y pone un anuncio en el periódico. Eso le convierte en objetivo de unos delincuentes...
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El prestigioso pianista Stephen Orlac viaja a Francia para casarse con Louise Cochrane. Pero el avión sufre turbulencias durante el viaje y acaba teniendo un accidente, en el que Orlac acaba perdiendo las manos. Ese mismo día, el asesino Louis Vasseur ha sido ajusticiado. Mediante cirujía, al pianista le implantan dos manos nuevas, pertenecientes al cadáver de Vasseur. Es entonces cuando el Mago Nero y su ayudante vietnamita intentan chantajear a Orlac, ya que son capaces de resucitar el espíritu maligno que las manos de Vasseur poseen, a lo que Orlac no podría oponerse.
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El prestigioso pianista Stephen Orlac viaja a Francia para casarse con Louise Cochrane. Pero el avión sufre turbulencias durante el viaje y acaba teniendo un accidente, en el que Orlac acaba perdiendo las manos. Ese mismo día, el asesino Louis Vasseur ha sido ajusticiado. Mediante cirujía, al pianista le implantan dos manos nuevas, pertenecientes al cadáver de Vasseur. Es entonces cuando el Mago Nero y su ayudante vietnamita intentan chantajear a Orlac, ya que son capaces de resucitar el espíritu maligno que las manos de Vasseur poseen, a lo que Orlac no podría oponerse.
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When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
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Tres mujeres y un hombre quedan aislados en una isla desierta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El hombre no tiene otro remedio que mantener relaciones con las tres, hasta que la tragedia estalla...
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Tres mujeres y un hombre quedan aislados en una isla desierta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El hombre no tiene otro remedio que mantener relaciones con las tres, hasta que la tragedia estalla...
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Tres mujeres y un hombre quedan aislados en una isla desierta durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El hombre no tiene otro remedio que mantener relaciones con las tres, hasta que la tragedia estalla...
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Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.
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Martine is searching for her sister that disappeared mysteriously. Lequévic agrees to help her.
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Set in a tiny village near the Riviera, the story concerns a diverse group of has-beens and losers.The Countess (played by Denise Vernac,Von Stroheim's secretary and constant companion in real life) entertains her jaded guests by screening dirty movies. Failed writer Blaise (Jacques Sernas) is saddled with an alcoholic wife (Dora Doll). And idealistic young Violaine (Etchika Choureau) is slowly dying of tuberculosis. The lives of all these people become intertwined through a sudden -- but not unexpected -- act of violence.
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Set in a tiny village near the Riviera, the story concerns a diverse group of has-beens and losers.The Countess (played by Denise Vernac,Von Stroheim's secretary and constant companion in real life) entertains her jaded guests by screening dirty movies. Failed writer Blaise (Jacques Sernas) is saddled with an alcoholic wife (Dora Doll). And idealistic young Violaine (Etchika Choureau) is slowly dying of tuberculosis. The lives of all these people become intertwined through a sudden -- but not unexpected -- act of violence.
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Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
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Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
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Farmer Jan Alting, who has disowned his son for collaborating with the nazis, provides shelter for a Jewish couple, a wanted communist and a rebel aristocrat. When his son returns, Jan is faced with the stark moral choice of failing those to whom he has given refuge, or conspiring with them to kill his own son.
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Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
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Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
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Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
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Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.
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Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.
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To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.
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"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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This government commissioned film -- made on the occasion of the forty year anniversary of queen Wilhelmina's reign -- chronicles the lives of two Dutch families from 1898 to 1938 against the backdrop of the social and political events of the times. It shows the emergence of trade unions, the troubled years of the First World War, the development of aviation and Schiphol airport, the Dutch East Indies and the lives of the Dutch royal family.
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During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for German intelligence.
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A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
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A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
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Due to a complex series of events a Guards Officer in a small European country is imprisoned. He manages to escape in the company of an idiotic milliner and they briefly take shelter with some gypsies, where the Captain falls in love with a young woman. Having been discovered by an American promoter while performing with gypsy orchestra in a tavern, the three accompany him to London as the latest new musical sensation. A great success, they begin a European-wide tour when their plane is forced down by bad weather in their homeland. Here events are satisfactorily resolved.
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A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
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Jeanne Saint-Clair es una mujer que está dividida entre el amor que siente por su marido, quien sufrió una grave discapacidad después de un accidente, y Robert Vanier, un deportista lleno de vitalidad.
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A genius director whose daring and sensual films have earned him the nickname "The Merchant of Love", claims to escape commercial contingencies and direct the film of his life on his own. It is a resounding failure that leads him to the forfeiture from which the fate of a woman's love.
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Two police inspectors track down a mysterious criminal who signs his crimes with a fiery triangle. When they have just discovered an accomplice, one of the police officers, in love with the young girl, is shot dead. His colleague will then have only one goal in mind.
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Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.
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Locked in a train, a group of suicide candidates await the death promised them by a crook. When they have almost gone mad with anguish, the door opens.
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Louis
En los años 30, bajo los tejados del París, en las buhardillas, viven los bohemios, los pobres, los artistas y los extranjeros. Entre ellos está Albert, un cantante callejero que se ha enamorado de Pola, una inmigrante polaca a la que también persigue Fred, jefe de una banda de gángsters. Albert y Pola viven juntos hasta que a Albert lo encarcelan por un robo que no ha cometido. Louis, su mejor amigo, se hará cargo entonces de la chica. (FILMAFFINITY)
