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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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Nov 26, 2002

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  • This sly, bouncy comedy set in the sunlit avenues of 1930s Paris is the remarkable directorial debut of Billy Wilder, the sharp-witted creator of such American classics as "Sunset Blvd.," "The Apartment" and "Irma la Douce." Spoiled doctor's son Henry (Pierre Mingand) discovers high-octane thrills and jazz-era romance when he falls in with an organized ring of car thieves. After befriending Jean, a dapper young chap with a curious fetish for men's neckties, Henry falls for Jean's sister, Jeannette ("8 Women's" Danielle Darrieux), who works as car-bait by luring love-hungry Parisian gentlemen away from their chrome-plated carriages. Weaving suspense with risque comedy in the style of Wilder's classic "Some Like It Hot," this effervescent cinematic highball was shot in France by Wilder (during his migration from Germany to the U.S.) and co-director Alexander Esway, garnished with a lively jazz score by Franz Waxman.
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