3 Movies Starring Victor Francen

La fin du jour

La fin du jour

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-09-11

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (263 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Julien Duvivier

Charles Spaak

Fullplot:

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.

Hold Back the Dawn

Hold Back the Dawn

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1941-09-26

Languages:

English, Spanish

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1050 Reviews)

Director:

Mitchell Leisen

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Ketti Frings (story)

Charles Brackett

Billy Wilder

Fullplot:

Told in flashback from a preface in which the main character visits Paramount to sell his story! Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.

Hell and High Water

Hell and High Water

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-02-06

Languages:

English, French, Italian, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (975 Reviews)

Director:

Samuel Fuller

Cast:

Writer:

Jesse Lasky Jr. (screenplay)

Samuel Fuller (screenplay)

David Hempstead (story)

Fullplot:

A privately-financed scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Navy officer to conduct an Alaskan submarine expedition in order to prevent a Red Chinese anti-American plot that may lead to World War III. Mixes deviously plotted schoolboy fiction with submarine spectacle and cold war heroics.

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