Bill Bocket
Рождение : 1892-03-15, Tinchebray, Orne, France
Смерть : 1961-03-12
(uncredited)
В небольшом городке орудует банда, возглавляемая уголовником Спарадрой. В этом же городе живёт служащий одного медицинского заведения Анатоль, сын которого берёт уроки музыки у музыканта Ипполита. Ипполит иногда аккомпанирует княгине Латриль, которая любит устраивать концерты и давать приёмы в своём доме. В один из таких приёмов банда Спарадра крадёт у неё какую-то мелочь и решает позже обчистить дом полностью. Чтобы отвести от себя подозрения, грабители решают подставить Анатоля. Для этого участница банды Эмма знакомится с ним и просит у него на память фотографию и шляпу, которые преступники намереваются оставить в ограбленном доме.
In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an adventurer.
Circus employee
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Petit rôle (uncredited)
Действие картины разворачивается в Париже 20-30-х 19-го века. Это обширный рассказ о безответной любви, тайных романах, ревностии страсти в мире театра, преступности и аристократии. «Дети райка»- это бедняки, занимающие галерку театров в «Бульвар Дю Темпль». Они становятся свидетелями истории любви театрального мима Баптиста и его обожаемой Гаранс.
Le vitrier (uncredited)
Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth.
At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Léon
After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her love for him, Thomas asks his brother Werner to look after Barbara, as he feels he is too consumed by work and doesn't wish to be bound to anyone. Only after a fight with his brother does Thomas realize how much in love with Barbara he really is; but by that time, she has left him. For years, Thomas searches in vain for her until one day he meets her in New York ... where she is now married.
A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).
Michelot
A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.
A likeable young man, reduced to living by expediency, is launched in spite of himself into an adventure of stealing jewels. With the help of a brave, rough-looking but actually very clear-sighted policeman, the jewels are recovered, the stolen young woman is reassured and the main culprit is forced into exile.
Jacques is a jolly bachelor who lives a wild life with his a mistress Wanda and all he wishes is to go on living the way he does. But Father won't allow. He demands that Jacques get married. More or less reluctantly, Jacques decides to comply but on the way to his father's home - where he is to meet the bride Dad has chosen for him - the young man comes across the charming Simone and falls in love with her at first sight. He elopes her, determined to ignore his progenitor's orders. Little does he know that Simone, the girl of his heart, is none other than the one he was supposed to marry...
Le client violent au musette
Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
René, a simple employee of the Univers agency run by Mr. Lebourdier, loves Yvonne. But Mr. Martin dreams of a brighter party for his daughter. In order to win the post of deputy director, René asks Nenette, a pretty blonde, to seduce Mr. Lebourdier. But Nenette is Mr. Martin's girlfriend and she manages to fix everything.
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines.On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsies are willing to help him recover his home and fortune. French version of Der Zigeunerbaron based on the Strauss operetta, filmed at the same time with a different cast except for Wohlbrück.
The second officer (as Bill-Bocketts)
From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.
Director Rosé and his opera company travel to Monte Carlo where they expect an engagément to perform at the opera house. During the boat trip Mario, the cheerful tenor, meets a girl hidden in his cabin. He helps her singing for her passage and soon Nicole is adopted by the whole troupe. Then at Monte Carlo the opera director has no intention to sign them. But he has an eye for beautiful women, so Nicole will try to persuade him to reconsider the offer.
In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three soldiers defy orders and jump the wall. But the colonel becomes indulgent thanks to the intervention of the general who did not remain insensitive to the charm of a young American.
Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.
Mazzini
A military wife remarries after she thinks her Russian husband has died in battle, and when he returns alive he enlists in the Foreign Legion rather than disrupt her new happiness.
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
Le concierge Zühlke (as Bill Bockett)
During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
Pipac
Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.
Fil de Fer
Simultaneously filmed French version of the German film Der Andere: A strict legal official,in a variation of the Jekyll and Hyde plot, turns into a criminal at night.
Bill
Уличный певец Альбер и Пола любят друг друга, хотя Пола любит пофлиртовать и с его лучшим другом Луи. Когда Альбер оказывается в тюрьме за преступление, которого он не совершал, уже ничто не мешает Поле и Луи отдаться взаимному влечению. Альбера освобождают, он приходит в ярость, узнав о романе Полы и его лучшего друга. То, до чего вся троица, в конечном счете, договаривается — совершенная неожиданность для зрителя.
По одноименной пьесе Робера де Флера и Франсиса де Круассе.
Балерина парижской "Оперы" Сюзанна Верье - содержанка графа де Монтуара-Гранпре; кроме того, ее добивается электрик театра Жак Гайак. Начинается забастовка работников транспорта, и Гайак оказывается одним из лидеров левого лагеря. Его избирают в депутаты, назначают министром, и Сюзанна становится его любовницей. Пока Гайак участвует в важном мероприятии в провинции, граф де Монтуар-Гранпре производит переворот в министерстве, и правые силы возвращаются к власти. По инциативе графа Гайак принимает пост в Лиге наций. Сюзанна понимает, что для Гайака карьера всегда будет важнее любви, и возвращается к своему старому другу.