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Director:
Writers:
René Clair (screenplay) &
Jérôme Géronimi (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
25 October 1955 (USA) more
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Awards:
3 wins more
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A huge disappointment for an avid Rene Clair fan more (9 total)

Cast

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Michèle Morgan ... Marie-Louise Rivière
Gérard Philipe ... Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne
Jean Desailly ... Victor Duverger
Pierre Dux ... Le colonel
Jacques Fabbri ... L'ordonnance d'Armand
Jacques François ... Rodolphe
Yves Robert ... Le lieutenant Félix Leroy

Brigitte Bardot ... Lucie
Lise Delamare ... Juliette Duverger
Jacqueline Maillan ... Jeanne Duverger, une soeur de Victor
Magali Noël ... Thérèse, la chanteuse (as Magali Noel)
Simone Valère ... Gisèle Monnet (as Simone Valere)
Catherine Anouilh ... Alice, la fille du préfet
Madeleine Barbulée ... La dame au chapeau jaune
Dany Carrel ... Rose-Mousse
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Grandi manovre (Italy)
Summer Manoeuvres (UK)
The Grand Maneuver (USA)
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Runtime:
106 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Italian censorship visa #20434 delivered on 22 December 1955. more

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A huge disappointment for an avid Rene Clair fan, 25 June 2002
5/10
Author: zetes from Saint Paul, MN

A womanizing soldier (circa WWI) makes a wager with his fellow soldiers that he will be able to seduce any woman chosen at random. The woman is chosen, he goes for it. You can probably guess most of the rest: he falls in love with her unexpectedly, she finds out about the wager, there is a question of whether they will ever truly get together, yada yada yada. Yes, it's that old plot. Perhaps Clair invented it, but I doubt it. It would later be used in every fourth movie ever made in the 1980s. I hoped that Clair could make it work. My favorite films of his are so effortlessly romantic that I expected him to be able to do it. Alas, he can't. This film lacks everything that made films like Le million charming and romantic. This one is cold and dull. I didn't like either of the leads. The man was completely despicable and the woman was frigid. Scenes move too quickly, and there is no feeling in them. The only bright spots are some nice cinematography (it was Clair's first film in color, and it looks as if the whole thing has been painted with watercolors) and a nice little supporting role by the enormously darling young Brigitte Bardot. 5/10.

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