Maurice de Canonge
Director · 1894 – 1978 · Toulon, Var, France
Movies19
Movie10.0DramaThe mountain guide Jakob is a controversial figure. His supposed father dies and leaves behind a great heritage to the people. In the town they consider Jakob a bastard, because his parents were not married, which means that without a testament, the lands in which he lives do not belong to him. But the testament indicates that the inheritance corresponds him under a single condition, he must be the first person to climb the east face of Monte Verità. French version of Die weisse majestat, shot the year before in German with the same script in the Eiger/Jungfrau region but with different actors and by a different director.
Movie5.5ComedyThe most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to steal the top secret phone number and then begins to implement chaos by phoning Washington and Moscow, telling the two powers that their respective spy chiefs are traitors. It's spy versus spy, agent versus double agent, counter spy against counter-counter spy in a rapidly increasing international crisis that finds its solution on the stage of Chinese theater in Barcelona, Spain as the spy leaders, the traitorous agent, a beautiful girl, three old ladies, a young man caught up in the chain of events and a troupe of acrobats collide head on in battle.
Movie7.7AdventureThis epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man he goes to Italy to become a soldier for the Pope. Later he helps the Pope's emissary wage war against the Spanish Moors. His exploits win him great favor. He falls in love with a famous Italian courtesan and she with him. Unfortunately, the Pope splits them apart with his newest decree which demands that all prostitutes leave the city. Upset, Cervantes goes to fight in the famed sea battle of Lepanto and comes back a hero. Later he is captured by Barbary pirates and ransomed by Trinitarian friars.
Movie6.3CrimeA journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
Movie7.0ComedyPopolka takes advantage of the absence of his shrew of a wife to indulge in the delights of single life. His manager showers him with favors because he is in love with a young woman whom he believes to be Popolka's wife. When Madame Popolka returns, the situation becomes confused...
Le coup de trois
1936 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceMadame Vervier, a sophisticated woman, sends her daughter Alix to live with Owen Bradley's parents in London.
The Little French Girl
1925 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Trilby
1923 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0ComedyHistory
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
1935 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaActivities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
La Bataille du feu
1949 · 1 votes
Movie10.0A charming little couple is watched by the misfortune that hides under the disturbing and enigmatic features of a femme fatale.
Movie8.0DramaAn English circus clown finds he's lost his touch after returning from war.
The Side Show of Life
1924 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceWorthless French cad Paul L'Estrange leads a young Southern girl, Linda Lou Heath, from the shelter of her home in Dixie to a cabin in the Canadian wilderness, where he soon tires of his new plaything. He has a friend carry a message of his death to her and leaves her to the ravages of a cold Canadian winter. Her childhood sweetheart, David Tennant, comes to her rescue, they marry, and he takes a position in Malaysia. There, she finds her first husband, whom she thought dead, serving a term in the government prison--soon to be released. The Southern belle, the former Linda Lou Heath from the 'land o' cotton', is now in a Malayan jungle as Linda Lou Heath L'Estrange Tennant, the wife of two husbands.
Love's Wilderness
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible. There, he discovers the belle, named Pearl, has a husband. Never mind such an insignificant detail, Olive tells himself as the dirigible takes off with a stowaway among the passengers. Unfortunately a storm breaks and the captain, realizing that there are thirteen people on board, decides to sacrifice one of them. And guess who ? Olive, of course...!
Movie7.0ComedyDramaA ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
Movie8.0DramaA young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
Shadows of Paris
1924 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaAn Alaskan defies robber barons intent on corrupting the new state.
The Alaskan
1924 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Four classmates decide to perform a love song that their friend, Pierre, composed for Marie. Novac, another admirer of Marie, is murdered. Pierre suspects one of the four of being the killer, but incriminates himself, believing that Marie was in love with the killer.
Les quatre vagabonds
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyDramaPierre and Georges both love Gretel who, in turn, is in love with Georges. Georges falls in love with another, Dolly, but the lover of the latter threatens to stop supporting him. Georges ends up finding Gretel, who forgives him, while Pierre steps aside to ensure their happiness.
Movie10.0CrimeL'évadée
1929 · 1 votes