Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool C...
A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's "La Vie Parisienne" which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a you...
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation....
THE NEW GENTLEMEN, one of the wittiest, most sophisticated comedies ever to come out of France, describes a tug-of-war over a pretty young actress between an aging aristocrat and a young left-wing union organizer....
故事发生在1895年的夏天,法第纳尔(吉姆·热拉尔德 Jim Gérald 饰)正喜滋滋的赶着马车,穿越布劳涅森林,却参加自己的结婚典礼。在森林中,法第纳尔的马鞭被树枝缠住了,在解马鞭的时候,他的马啃坏了一顶挂在树杈上的意大利草帽。 草帽的主人是一位名叫阿纳斯(艾丽斯·蒂索 Alice Tissot 饰)的女子,此时的她正在和她的情夫于森林之中幽会。阿纳斯的丈夫生性多疑又好嫉妒,阿纳斯害怕自己拿着坏掉的草帽回家不好交代,于是缠着法第纳尔,一定要他赔自己一顶一模一样的草帽。然而,法第纳尔走遍了整个...
"Le Voyage Imaginaire" belongs to the most avant-garde first period of the frenchified film director René Clair. This is from his silent and experimental film period of which this German Count is very fond despite Herr Clair being a descendant of tho...