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... (read more) 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

Cast:

• Michèle Morgan
• Gérard Philipe
• Jean Desailly
• Brigitte Bardot
• Yves Robert
• Simone Valere
• Jacques Francois
• Lise Delamare
• Jacques Fabbri
• Pierre Dux
• Jacqueline Maillan
• Catherine Anouilh
• Magali Noël
• Raymond Cordy
• Oliver Hussenot

Director(s):

René Clair

Writer(s):

Jerome Geronimi, Jean Marsan, René Clair

Producer(s):

René Clair

Awards:

• 1955 - Prix Louis-Delluc - René Clair - French Film Critics Circle