Van Helsing
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe–the son of Count Dracula–falls in love with the beautiful but human Amber and finds himself in conflict with Baron Frankenstein, who is vying for the same honorary title.
L'avocat Linsday
A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
Dr. Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.
Mr. Pollack
Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.
Hector Snipe
에드워드는 셰익스피어 극에만 출연하는 배우다. ´올해의 배우상´ 수상에 실패하자 그는 딸을 끌어들여 셰익스피어 희곡들에 나온 살인 장면들을 연기한다. 컬트적 매력이 충만한, 엉뚱하고 신선한 코미디 호러 각색물.
Dracula, actor
Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.
Eugene Soul
Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
King of Hearts
An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
The Englishman
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Dr. Frankenstein
Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Morpho are killed just as they bring their creation to life. The monster is taken by Cagliostro and he now controls the monster and plans to have it mate and create the perfect master race!
Laurence Bakewell
A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Mr. Gort
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
Dietrich
While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
Dr. Alwin Seward
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Fairburn
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
The Graverobber
Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.
Benson
Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
Winthrop
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
Percival Kapp
A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death.
Inspector Bill Bradley
Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
The Duke of Barset
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
bathroom salesman
A stressed television producer and his unhappy lounge singer wife are growing tired of each other.
Maj. Lomas
In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.
Dr. Edward Armstrong
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.
Mathias
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Quinn Taggart
A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Tommy Morris
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Cornwallis Marley
In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes herself to be a vampire, while a third is locked away in a padded cell. Another family member is thrilled when he finally invents a horseless carriage (50 years after Ford), and the family grandfather is found reading Playboy just before he dies. Trouble begins when members of the family begin to be mysteriously murdered. The American suitor must then discover which member of the strange family is in line to inherit the family fortune.
Harris Tumbrill
A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Cmdr. Millbank
이륙 예정이던 비행기가 예기치 못한 안개로 인해 지연되면서 계획이 꼬인 사람들이 하룻밤 동안 여러 가지 일을 겪는 이야기
Dr Blacker
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Charles Poole
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
Ronald Fortescue
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.
Grantley
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
Prawn
While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.
Withers
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Smooth Tongue
New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he becomes involved in a food-trading racket. When the scheme is betrayed to the prison's governor, its prime mover is threatened with an extended sentence - unless Rainbow can come up with a way to save him.
Sir Charles Bryant
A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope.
Guy Broughton
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
Lt. Cmdr Hardcastle
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Calloway
결혼한 변호사 멜빌 파(더크 보가드 분)가 과거 동성애 장면을 찍은 사진으로 자신을 협박하는 협박범과 한판 대결을 벌인다. 파는 그때 당시 동성애 상대 중의 하나가 동일한 협박범으로부터 협박을 받고 자살했다는 사실을 알게 되고, 명망 있는 변호사로서 자신의 명예는 물론 가정까지 파괴될 운명에 처하면서도 비열한 공갈범과 맞서기로 한다. 형사인 해리스(존 배리 분)은 동성애 금지법이 협박범에게만 이득이 된다는 것을 깨닫고 고통에 시달리는 파를 돕기로 하는데... 인종차별문제를 주제로 한 에 이어 동성애라는 사회적 이슈를 다룬 영화로 개봉당시 매우 논란이 되었다. 미국에서는 한 때 상영금지가 되었고, 여러 장면들이 삭제가 된 후에도 영국 등급위원회에서 X 등급을 받은 (그러나 80년대 후반에 PG-12으로 재등급 분류된) 이 영화는 동성애에 대한 억압된 사회적 틀을 자유롭게 해주는 데 큰 역할을 하기도 했다. (한국영상자료원)
Leonard Watson
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Jim Smith
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Flagg
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Raphael
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Gore Blackwood
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
Adrian
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Maj. Charles 'Charlie' Scott, M.C. (Battalion Executive Officer)
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
Edward
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Robert Ross
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Dunstan
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
Bertram Tracepurcel
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.
Nigel Dennis
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Tracey Moreton
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Digby Hatchard
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
Robert Blackton
An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about.
Harold Armytage
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
Brig. Bertram Tracepurcel
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Maj. Frank
In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
Mateo Vasquez
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Allan
A scientist on the run with a valuable formula is murdered, and the only witnesses are eight blind people.
Martin Radley
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Debenham
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
Leonard Pirry
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Inspector Peter Lawton
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Simon Gale
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Maurice Fletcher
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Matthew Ibbetson
An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Harold
사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.
Tom Pettigrew
Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin Helen but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possess.
Simon Abbott
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Clive Hunter
As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Matthew, Stephen's Landlord
A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.
Rudi Kleiber
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Ridley
Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
Louis
루이스 마치니(데니스 프라이스 분)는 다스코인 공작의 딸과 무일푼의 오페라 가수 사이에서 태어난 서출이다. 하지만 그는 작위를 물려받겠다는 생각으로 자신의 길에 방해가 되는 사람들을 모두 제거하기로 결심한다. 루이스는 다양한 방법으로 친척들을 제거해 나가기 시작한다. 사고로 죽은 두 사람을 제외하고, 여섯 사람이나 죽인 루이스는 드디어 작위를 차지한다. 하지만 그는 엉뚱하게도 어린 시절 친구이자 결혼 후에도 계속 관계를 가져온 시벨라(조안 그린우드 분)의 남편을 죽인 것으로 체포되어 사형될 위기에 처한다. 다행히 시벨라의 남편은 자살한 것으로 밝혀지고 루이스는 석방된다. 하지만 그는 감옥 안에서 시간을 보내기 위해 썼던 회고록을 감옥 안에 두고 나온다. 그리고 발견된 그의 회고록을 읽은 한 출판 업자가 루이스에게 접근해 그 회고록을 인쇄할 권리를 요구하는데...
Lord Byron
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Lord Byron
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Michael 'Red' Farrell
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Neil Blair
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
Joe Henty
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Richard Glover
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
Joshua Crowther
Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
Christopher Hatton
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
Sq. Ldr. Hardwick
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Richard Fenton
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Greyhound John
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Paul de la Rochelle
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Sir Francis Castleton
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
Dick Warren
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Dr. Robert Selbie
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Peter Gibbs
늦은 밤, 기차가 캔터베리 인근 마을에 정차한 후 떠난다. 인근 부대로 발령을 받은 영국 군인 피터, 캔터베리인 줄 알고 내린 미국 군인 밥, 그리고 일자리를 구하려는 앨리슨이 기차에서 내렸다. 그런데 어둠 속에서 나타난 괴한이 앨리슨의 머리에 접착제를 들이붓고 도망친다. 세 사람은 이렇게 여자만 공격하는 일이 심심찮게 있었다는 사실을 알게 되고, 앨리슨은 피터와 밥에게 괴한을 잡도록 도와 달라고 한다. 제목에서 알 수 있듯이 영시의 아버지로 불리는 제프리 초서의 걸작 『캔터베리 이야기』에서 영감을 얻은 작품이다. 마이클 파웰과 에머릭 프레스버거가 독일 출신 촬영 감독 어윈 힐리어와 처음 작업했으며, 영국 리얼리즘과 독일 표현주의 스타일이 섞여 있다.
Le jockey de 'Nana'
르누아르가 존경해마지 않았던 에밀 졸라의 원작 소설을 각색한 장편 무성영화. 르누아르의 아내인 카트린 에슬랭이 주인공 나나 역을 맡았으며, "칼리가리 박사의 밀실"의 베르너 크라우스가 상대역인 무파 백작 역을 맡았다. 원작과 배우의 지명도에 힘입어 상업적 성공을 확신한 르누아르는 대규모 예산을 투여하여 를 제작했지만, 결과적으로는 흥행에 참패, 아버지의 그림을 팔아 청구서를 갚아야만 했다. 하지만 "나나"의 서정성, 그리고 희극과 비극이 교묘하게 어우러진 분위기는 많은 비평가들의 찬사를 받았다.
