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The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] **** (1962, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Brasseur, Claude Rich, Jean Carmet, O E Hasse) – Classic Movie Review 8988

Director Jean Renoir’s 1962 French wartime comedy drama The Vanishing Corporal [Le Caporal épinglé] [The Elusive Corporal] stars Jean-Pierre Cassel as a Parisian corporal, who is captured by the invading Germans and, along with two of […]

Oct, 16

The River **** (1951, Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne, Adrienne Corri, Patricia Walters, Thomas E Breen) – Classic Movie Review 3245

French master director Jean Renoir turns Rumer Godden’s romantic auto-biographical novel about an English family on the banks of the Ganges into this beautifully filmed (on location in Bengal in India), rich and compelling 1951 drama. The […]

Jan, 06

La Règle du Jeu [The Rules of the Game] ***** (1939, Marcel Dalio, Nora Grégor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parély, Julien Carette, Paulette Dubost, Roland Toutain) – Classic Movie Review 2791

Co-writer/director Jean Renoir’s famous great 1939 French world cinema classic is a poignant, penetrating social comedy set in a grand chateau in the country in France at the onset of World War Two. Guests arrive […]

Aug, 08

La Bête Humaine [The Human Beast] ***** (1938, Jean Gabin, Julien Carette, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux) – Classic Movie Review 2,788

Packed with passion and atmosphere, writer-director Jean Renoir’s 1938 modernised French film version of the antique 1890 Emile Zola novel La Bête Humaine is both one of the great train movies and one of the great […]

Aug, 08

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