Raymond Souplex

At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.

Léon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are. One day, he falls madly in love with a charming hotel thief by the name of Suzan.

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.

France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.

Nel sedicesimo secolo gli Spagnoli che occupano le Fiandre provocano con la durezza del loro regime la ribellione dei cittadini, che avevano sempre goduto di una certa indipendenza e di privilegi. Nel paesino di Dam vive un giovane conosciuto per il suo carattere spensierato: si chiama Till Eulenspiegel. Sarà lui il protagonista delle lotte per ridare la libertà al suo paese. Riproposizione in chiave avventurosa e fantastica del celebre personaggio ampiamente sfruttato anche in musica, letteratura e teatro. Per questo esordio nella regia Gérard Philipe si fece aiutare da Joris Ivens, grande documentarista olandese.

Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.

Francia, appena liberata dal giogo tedesco. Catturati come clandestini a bordo di una nave, Manon, una giovane donna accusata di collaborare con i nazisti, e Robert, un soldato della Resistenza che l'ha salvata dalle rappresaglie, raccontano al capitano le molte sfide che hanno affrontato per sopravvivere.

Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.