Belle étoile (1938)

Director:

Jacques de Baroncelli

Writer:

Michel Duran

Stars:

Michel Simon, Meg Lemonnier, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Cast

Credited cast:
Michel Simon	...	Léon
Meg Lemonnier	...	Meg Lemarchal
Jean-Pierre Aumont	...	Jean-Pierre
Saturnin Fabre	...	Lemarchal
Georges Lannes	...	Monsieur Albert
Jean Aymé	...	Le receleur
Marcel Vallée	...	Le président
André Numès Fils	...	Charlot
René Blancard	...	Le commissaire
Robert Ralphy	...	Un passant
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Etienne Decroux
Guy Favières
Irène Jeanning
Liliane Lesaffre
Georges Marceau

Storyline

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

24 November 1938 (France)

Also Known As:

Bajo los puentes de París

Company Credits

Production Co:

Éclair-Journal

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Sleeping out in the open.

Jacques De Baroncelli was a prolific director ,active from the silent age (1916)up to post-war years ("Rocambole" 1947)."La Duchesse De Langeais"(1942) is considered his best work.

This one is a comedy.The beginning might remind some users of a famous scene of "it's wonderful life" -which had still to be made in 1938): a young man ,weary of life ,wants to throw himself into the river ;but a young girl does it at the very moment he is about to act.He saves her and a "guardian angel" welcomes him ,in the shape of a tramp ,played by the always wonderful Michel Simon.Nothing magic,nothing religious ,like in Capra's classic .Simply the two young people decides to live under the stars ,like their mate .The chick (Meg Lemonnier)is a wealthy banker's daughter and the boy (Jean ¨-Pierre Aumont) a poor artist ,but he is handsome whereas all the men the rich dad wanted his heir to marry were graybeards.

Dad gets out of his way to find back his precious darling;but gangsters get wind of the disappearance and demand a ransom.This is a pleasant cops and robbers comedy in which everyone ,the bad guys and the good ones all wind up in a court .