Coral Reefs (1939)
"Le récif de corail" (original title)

The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).

Director:

Maurice Gleize

Writers:

Jean Martet (novel), Charles Spaak (screenplay)

Stars:

Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Saturnin Fabre

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Jean Gabin	...	Trott Lennard
Michèle Morgan	...	Lilian White
Saturnin Fabre	...	Hobson
Gina Manès	...	Maria
Jenny Burnay	...	Anna
Julien Carette	...	Havelock
Louis Florencie	...	Le capitaine Jolifé
Guillaume de Sax	...	Springbett
René Bergeron	...	Jim
Gaston Modot	...	Le colonel mexicain
Pierre Magnier	...	Un médecin
Léonce Corne	...	L'hôtelier de Bridgetown
Yves Deniaud	...	Le vendeur (as Deniaud)
Pierre Renoir	...	Abboy

Storyline

The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).

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Plot Keywords:

pacific ocean | sailor | based on novel

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

17 February 1939 (France)

Also Known As:

Coral Reefs

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universum Film (UFA)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Mono Mono (Klangfilm)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

You don't change a winning team...

...that's why ,the year after "Quai des Brumes" ,one of Marcel Carné's best films ,here they are again:Jean Gabin and Michele Morgan .The movie was recently broadcast on the French TV and it's a big disappointment,particularly coming from a scenarist like Charles Spaak.

First of all,the action takes place in a chocolate box Australia (they tell us it happens in Australia,we would never guess).Gabin has killed a man,and of course he did not mean to do such as a thing.So ,he 's got to sail away to the islands in the sun (a permanent feature in the thirties French cinema).Morgan ,who appears only in the second half ,committed a murder too.A policeman is hot on their heels.And to crown it all, there's an influenza epidemic.Enough is enough!There are more holes in the plot than in Swiss cheese.

Gabin and Morgan were to make a third movie together,and that last one was successful: "Remorques" by Jean Gremillon,a few years later.