Marcel Raine
Nascimento : 1898-07-24, Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France
Morte : 1956-08-12
Orsini
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
Preising, le conseiller du Duc
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
Me. Dalmet
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.
Maria is the wife of self-styled naturalist Mathius. Alas, Maria's husband spends more time with his beloved woodland creatures than with her. Yearning for a visit to the Big City, Maria leaves herself wide open for disillusionment and heartbreak.
Gouttemel
Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.
General Counsel
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Matteo
The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.
Commander Bringois
At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman.
Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his adopted son. When he leaves he finds Terrian who is going to get married. He drags his future wife into a cabin and kills her.
Madeleine's father
Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.
Commander Dartois
In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men appear on the crime scene, each of them claiming to be Monsieur Sylvain, the expected sleuth. But which of the three investigators is actually Sylvain? And what about this delightful young lady who arouses one of the police inspectors? Couldn't she be the murderous spy?
Cyrano, poet and cadet from Gascony, is afflicted with an excessively long nose which makes the beauties smile. He is no less in love with his cousin Roxane.
Pierre Carrel, director
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
Un complice de Dandurand (uncredited)
Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison for theft. Noël goes to see a dying friend, Romieux, who asks him to take care of his daughter Marthe, who has settled in Paris (Batignolles district). Noël goes there and discovers that Marthe is destitute (her lover Gaston being an incarcerated mobster): he then offers her to come and live with him and soon, marries her.
O filme representa o surgimento de um jovem deputado que, para continuar sua carreira, se junta aos Maçons franceses. Em seguida, ele começa a acreditar que junto com os judeus, eles deliberadamente querem empurrar a França para uma guerra contra a Alemanha.
A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
Sire Noble
No reino dos animais, a raposa Reynard está acostumada a enganar e trapacear todos. Então o Rei, o Leão, recebe mais e mais reclamações constantes sobre ele. Ele ordena que Reynard seja preso e trazido até ele... Um dos primeiros filmes com bonecos. Inspirada em um um conto medieval Francês.
Röder (voice)
Nessa notória propaganda anti-semita, Suess Oppenheimer, um ambicioso negociante judeu, ascende como o tesoureiro do duque, o qual lhe corrompe com riquezas e promessas sempre grandiosas.
Com a crescente atuação do judeu, cada vez mais descarada e elaborada, o duque acaba quase que estourando uma guerra civil.
Quando o Duque acaba por morrer de um ataque cardíaco, o judeu sofre represália e é sentenciado à morte pela Assembléia dos Anciãos, que o acusa de "manter relações carnais com uma mulher cristã".
Brutus
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.