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Mauvaise Graine (1933)
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Runtime: 76 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Billy Wilder's vibrant pre-Hollywood directorial debut expresses many of the sensibilities that were to be explored in his future films. Co-directed by Alexander Esway, the film features a clever... Billy Wilder's vibrant pre-Hollywood directorial debut expresses many of the sensibilities that were to be explored in his future films. Co-directed by Alexander Esway, the film features a clever and cutting screenplay written by Alexandre Esway, H.G. Lustig, and Max Kolpe, based on a short story by Billy Wilder. A ring of scrappy Parisian car thieves uses an innocent-looking girl named Jeanette (Danielle Darrieux) as a decoy. Trouble ensues when they collide with a disinherited French wastrel named Henri Pasquier (Pierre Mingrand). Henri--whose father has recently cut off his inheritance in an attempt to teach him a lesson--has responded in turn by stealing a car. The gang's leader, Jean la Cravate (Raymond Galle), quickly incorporates Henri's skills, but jealousy within the new gang inevitably gets in the way. Finding production on a shoestring budget insufferable, Wilder would not direct another film for nine years. Interestingly, the film's run-and-gun style predates the French Nouvelle Vague movement by many years. Franz Waxman provides the powerful jazzy score. The film also featutes a dose of the classic cleverer-than-she-looks bad girl with a gleam in her eye whom Wilder's future actresses would revel in playing. [More]
Starring: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
Starring: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Raymond Galle
Director: Billy Wilder, Alexandre Esway
Director: Billy Wilder, Alexandre Esway
Screenwriter: Billy Wilder, Max Kolpe, H.G. Lustig
Producer: Georges Bernier
Composer: Franz Waxman, Allan Gray
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Release:
Nov 26, 2002
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