Pierre Huchet

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean Renoir
CAST:  René Lefèvre  •  Florelle  •  Jules Berry  •  Marcel Lévesque

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean Renoir
CAST:  René Lefèvre  •  Florelle  •  Jules Berry  •  Marcel Lévesque

Quadrille (1938)

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sacha Guitry
CAST:  Sacha Guitry  •  Gaby Morlay  •  Jacqueline Delubac  •  Georges Grey

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sacha Guitry
CAST:  Sacha Guitry  •  Gaby Morlay  •  Jacqueline Delubac  •  Georges Grey

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sacha Guitry
CAST:  Sacha Guitry  •  Lucien Baroux  •  Jean Périer  •  Roger Bourdin

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sacha Guitry
CAST:  Sacha Guitry  •  Lucien Baroux  •  Jean Périer  •  Roger Bourdin

The Adventurer (1934)

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marcel L'Herbier
CAST:  Victor Francen  •  Blanche Montel  •  Henri Rollan  •  Gisèle Casadesus

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marcel L'Herbier
CAST:  Victor Francen  •  Blanche Montel  •  Henri Rollan  •  Gisèle Casadesus

Âme de clown (1933)

Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marc Didier
CAST:  Pierre Fresnay  •  Pierrette Caillol  •  Fred Pasquali  •  Georges Rollin

Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marc Didier
CAST:  Pierre Fresnay  •  Pierrette Caillol  •  Fred Pasquali  •  Georges Rollin

La dactylo se marie (1934)

A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joe May  •  René Pujol
CAST:  Marie Glory  •  Jean Murat  •  Armand Bernard  •  Mady Berry

A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joe May  •  René Pujol
CAST:  Marie Glory  •  Jean Murat  •  Armand Bernard  •  Mady Berry

Votre sourire (1934)

Because Colin has a charming smile, he seduces his boss, a great decorator. And Colin, who ruined himself to approach the young woman, succeeds in becoming her partner and then her husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monty Banks  •  Pierre Caron
CAST:  Victor Boucher  •  Marie Glory  •  Louis Baron fils  •  Georges Benoît

Because Colin has a charming smile, he seduces his boss, a great decorator. And Colin, who ruined himself to approach the young woman, succeeds in becoming her partner and then her husband.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Monty Banks  •  Pierre Caron
CAST:  Victor Boucher  •  Marie Glory  •  Louis Baron fils  •  Georges Benoît

My Aunts and I (1937)

Three "spinsters" focus their attention very narrowly on their nephew, in his first phase of adulthood. Éloi, handicapped by his shyness, behaves a bit awkwardly. He falls under the unfortunate influence of a couple of haddocks. The love of a pretty blonde woman ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yvan Noé
CAST:  René Lefèvre  •  Marguerite Moreno  •  Jacqueline Francell  •  Tramel

Three "spinsters" focus their attention very narrowly on their nephew, in his first phase of adulthood. Éloi, handicapped by his shyness, behaves a bit awkwardly. He falls under the unfortunate influence of a couple of haddocks. The love of a pretty blonde woman ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yvan Noé
CAST:  René Lefèvre  •  Marguerite Moreno  •  Jacqueline Francell  •  Tramel

La bataille silencieuse (1937)

A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, misled by a group of greedy financiers, is planning a terrorist attack on the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Billon
CAST:  Käthe von Nagy  •  Pierre Fresnay  •  Michel Simon  •  Abel Tarride

A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, misled by a group of greedy financiers, is planning a terrorist attack on the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Billon
CAST:  Käthe von Nagy  •  Pierre Fresnay  •  Michel Simon  •  Abel Tarride

Chipée (1938)

A businessman, Masson, who likes to party, wants to force his partner, Chabrat, a hard worker on whom the success of their fashion store depends, not to leave Paris. For this, he agrees with a young cabaret dancer, Zizi so that she pretends, for a fee, to fall in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roger Goupillières
CAST:  Victor Boucher  •  Nita Raya  •  Andrée Guize  •  Paul Pauley

A businessman, Masson, who likes to party, wants to force his partner, Chabrat, a hard worker on whom the success of their fashion store depends, not to leave Paris. For this, he agrees with a young cabaret dancer, Zizi so that she pretends, for a fee, to fall in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roger Goupillières
CAST:  Victor Boucher  •  Nita Raya  •  Andrée Guize  •  Paul Pauley

L'accroche-cœur (1938)

A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her fortune but her falling in love with him complicates matters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Caron
CAST:  Henri Garat  •  Jacqueline Delubac  •  Marguerite Moreno  •  Simone Héliard

A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her fortune but her falling in love with him complicates matters.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Caron
CAST:  Henri Garat  •  Jacqueline Delubac  •  Marguerite Moreno  •  Simone Héliard

Nine Bachelors (1939)

Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sacha Guitry
CAST:  Max Dearly  •  Elvira Popescu  •  Victor Boucher  •  Sacha Guitry

Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sacha Guitry
CAST:  Max Dearly  •  Elvira Popescu  •  Victor Boucher  •  Sacha Guitry