Jacques Feyder — Director (20)

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The Clutching Foot (1916)
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other title: Le Pied qui étreint / Le pied qui étreint
The famous scientific detective Justin Crécelle and his faithful assistant Walter Jymson seek to halt the deeds of the "Clutching Foot" gang, who attempt to kidnap Hélène, the fiancée of Justin, in both possible and ridiculous ways. The film is a spoof of the Les Vampires serials, with Musidora appearing in one episode in costume.

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Friendly Advice (1916)
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other title: Un conseil d'ami
This silent French film begins with Georges feeling miserable, as he has ambitions of being a great musician but is forced to eke out a living giving lessons. So, he writes a friend to ask his advice. The friend tries to remake Georges and make him a bit of a playboy. However, when it comes to wooing a rich American, the advice is not exactly perfect.

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Back Streets of Paris (1946)
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other title: Zur roten Laterne / Macadam …
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...

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The New Gentlemen (1929)
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other title: 新绅士 / Les Nouveaux messieurs …
THE NEW GENTLEMEN, one of the wittiest, most sophisticated comedies ever to come out of France, describes a tug-of-war over a pretty young actress between an aging aristocrat and a young left-wing union organizer.

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米摩沙公寓 (1936)
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雅克·费代尔 actor: 保罗·贝尔纳 / 弗朗索瓦丝·罗赛 …
other title: Pension Mimosas
类别:剧情 影片以赌城蒙地卡罗一家专门为赌徒开设的公寓为背景。一个母亲爱上了她自己的养子。但是他的养子是一个十足的赌徒,对自己的生活失去了其他依靠和信念。他企图把自己从赌场上赢得的钱,去帮她的养子脱离赌徒的生活,然后和她安稳的生活在一起。但是,最后,她竭尽全力,仍阻挡不住养子走上自杀的道路。女主人公是法国老女演员弗朗索阿·罗瑞依饰演,她的表演自成一派。当时在西欧的表演艺术上,主要分成两派。一派是以德国的舞台表演为代表的“夸张派”,主张演员必须“夸张”,“渲染人物的情绪”以便吸引观众的注意。另一派则是法国舞台演员所主张的“自然派”,反对“夸张”的表演。罗瑞依是“自然派”主要代表人物。她在30年代后,把这一派的表演特征带到了电影界,形成了法国电影表演艺术的主要倾向。

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Knight Without Armour (1937)
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other title: 无甲骑士 / 金粉情恋 …
Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra.

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Olympia (1930)
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雅克·费代尔 actor: 诺拉·格雷戈尔 / Theo Shall …
other title: 奥林匹亚
Although His Glorious Night, MGM's 1929 talkie adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's Olympia, proved to be a box-office disaster (a failure chalked up by the studio to the vocal inadequacies of leading man John Gilbert, though this wasn't entirely the case), the studio was still committed to refilming the property in French, Spanish and German-language versions. The French version, Si L'Empereur Savait Ca, starred Andre Luguet, while the Spanish adaptation, Olympia, top-billed José Crespo. Olympia was also the name of the German-language version, which like the French adaptation was directed by Jacques Feyder. This time, Theodor Shall is cast as handsome Lieutenant Kovacs, the sweetheart of the lovely Princess Olympia (Nora Gregor). When the princess' snooty mother breaks up the romance, the embittered Kovacs threatens to tell the world that he has "ruined" the girl (not true!), making her unfit for marriage. To ensure his silence, the Lieutenant is promised a night alone with Olympia, just before the wedding. It is at this point that Kovacs proves he's a gentleman after all by marrying the Princess, which is what he intended to do all along. Olympia was remade in 1960 as A Breath of Scandal.

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Carnival in Flanders (1935)
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雅克·费代尔 actor: 弗朗索瓦丝·罗赛 / 安德烈·阿莱尔姆 …
other title: 弗兰得狂欢节 / La Kermesse héroïque …
Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

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The Great Game (1934)
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雅克·费代尔 actor: 皮埃尔·里夏尔-威尔姆 / Marie Bell …
other title: 大赌局 / Le Grand jeu …
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.

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Faces of Children (1925)
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雅克·费代尔 actor: 查尔斯·巴罗瓦 / Rachel Devirys …
other title: 孩子的面孔 / Visages d'enfants …
A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother's death and his father's remarriage which brings a new mother and step-sister into his family.