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Dir: Christian-Jaque

Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. While she sees a notary about an inheritance, he's seduced to a bar by a shady man. The rogue gets Fernand drunk, knocks him out and switches costumes and papers. He's now Robert Durand, a voluntary Foreign legion recruit. After failed attempts to explain, he tastes military life and finds it less disciplined and more enjoyable then, marriage. But will that last when his wife tracks him and his unit is sent to action in tribal Algeria?

Dir: Christian-Jaque

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Voyage d'agrément perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Jerome has made his wife to believe that he's in prison in order to spend a few days with his girlfriend. But the deal goes bad when he found himself arrested, but this time for real.

Dir: Christian-Jaque

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Christian-Jaque

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Le bidon d'or perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

While walking back home at night, an examining judge is robbed of his watch. Fortunately he offers resistance and, by roughing up the mugger, manages to recover his belonging. Imagine his surprise when he realizes his thief is none other than... the President of the Court of Justice! How will the poor man behave with him knowing what he knows?

Dir: Christian-Jaque

Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred.

Dir: Christian-Jaque

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of L'article 382 perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The tamer Nikita marries the girl he had once recruited into the circus but she loves a trapeze artist.

Dir: Christian-Jaque

One man enlists his friend's help in wallpapering his dining room. The result is not quite what he had in mind.

Dir: Christian-Jaque

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of L'école des journalistes perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The notary Tremplin wants to give his daughter to the young rich farmer Adhemar. He goes with both of them to Paris where Henriette meets a sleazy car salesman who is precisely the rich heir sought by her father.

Dir: Christian-Jaque

Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while she's occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...

Dir: Christian-Jaque

On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law overhears the conversation and convinces Robert that she was that lady and that makes Robert's bride also his daughter. The wedding is in danger of being annulled when the trickery is finally discovered.