Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955)
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Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan, and the rest writes itself. Phillipe plans a slow seduction and a quick goodbye; Morgan, need we say, is no "goodbye girl." For all its lavish sets and meticulously detailed period costumers, Grand Maneuver is at base the old American farce Sailor Beware with a French accent. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, (more)
- Director(s):
- René Clair
Synopsis of Les Grandes Manoeuvres
Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan, and the rest writes itself. Phillipe plans a slow seduction and a quick goodbye; Morgan, need we say, is no "goodbye girl." For all its lavish sets and meticulously detailed period costumers, Grand Maneuver is at base the old American farce Sailor Beware with a French accent. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Les Grandes Manoeuvres
- Michèle Morgan - Marie Louise Riviera
- Jean Desailly - Victor Duverger
- Yves Robert - Felix Leroy
- Jacques Francois - Rudolph
- Jacques Fabbri - Armand's Batman
- Jacqueline Maillan - Juliette
- Magali Noël - Therese
- Oliver Hussenot - Prefect
- Gérard Philipe - Lt. Armand de la Verne
- Brigitte Bardot - Lucie
- Simone Valere - Gisele
- Lise Delamare - Jeanne
- Pierre Dux - Colonel
- Catherine Anouilh - Alice
- Raymond Cordy - Photographer
- Director(s):
- René Clair
- Writer(s):
- René Clair, Jean Marsan, Jerome Geronimi
- Producer(s):
- René Clair
- 1955 - French Film Critics Circle - Prix Louis-Delluc
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