A feud between families in 1870's rural France.
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Title: The Green Mare (1959)
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| Bourvil | ... | Honoré Haudouin | |
| Francis Blanche | ... | Ferdinand Haudouin | |
| Sandra Milo | ... | Marguerite Maloret | |
| Yves Robert | ... | Zèphe Maloret | |
| Julien Carette | ... | Philibert (as Carette) | |
| Valérie Lagrange | ... | Juliette Haudouin | |
| Marie Déa | ... | Anaïs Maloret | |
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Guy Bertil | ... | Toucheur |
| Mireille Perrey | ... | La mère Haudouin | |
| Georges Wilson | ... | Jules Haudouin | |
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Amédée | ... | Ernest Haudoin, le fils |
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Marie Mergey | ... | Adélaïde Haudoin |
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Claude Sainlouis | ... | Noël Maloret |
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Nicole Mirel | ... | Aline |
| Hans Verner | ... | Le sous-officier prussien (as Jean Verner) | |
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A feud between families in 1870's rural France.
I saw this film at the Paris Theatre in Brighton in 1960. I was 15 at the time, and illegal. I got in through the side door when the earlier sitting came out.
I have little memory of the story, except that it is set in an all-purpose earlier age, some time in the mid-1700s, and in deep rural bliss.
At one point, the heroine, wearing a full-length dirndl dress, squats in the barnyard and has a long pee. This shocked and amazed for two reasons. One, it instantly conveyed that the young woman was 'going commando'. Two, it depicted something in full-colour that would never, ever have been shown in a Hollywood or UK picture of the time. Kenneth More would have died!
In the context of heavily hung stallions mounting mares and other barnyard themes, it was entirely appropriate, and I am sure that French audiences of the day did not bat an eyelid. It proves how deep the shallow English Channel really was in those days.
And yet, only a few years later, certainly partly inspired by this randy, amusing and engaging film, Tony Richardson was making the ground-breaking Tom Jones.