BIZARRE BIZARRE (Drole De Drame), LE JOUR SE LEVE (daybreak) on video.
BIZARRE,
BIZARRE
Drole De Drame
Great satirical comedy based on the English mania for detective fiction. In Edwardian London, a bizarre chain of events is set in motion when a detective-story reader plans to commit his own perfect crime by murdering a detective-story author. A witty farce played to perfection by a superb cast (Louis Jouvet as a clergyman in a kilt, Jean-Pierre Aumont as a lovesick milkman and Jean-Louis Barrault as a vegetarian who murders butchers).
“Dadaist frivolity, with sequences that one giggles over happily for years.” --Pauline Kael
Directed by Marcel Carné. Script; Jacques Prevert. Photo; Eugen Schufftan. Music; Maurice Jaubert. Cast; Francoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean-Pierre Aumont
France 1937, 95 minutes.
French dialog with English Subtitles. ISBN 1-55881-274-1
$19.95
LE
JOUR SE LEVE
DAYBREAK
A man, accused of murder has barricaded himself in his small claustrophobic apartment. As the police and crowds gather below he awaits his fate at daybreak and recalls the strange circumstances that brought him to this situation. Heavy atmospheric piece; one of the best of the poetic-realist film collaborations with Jacques Prévert. RKO bought the rights for an inferior remake called The Long Night with Henry Fonda (1947) and tried to destroy all prints of the original.
Directed by Marcel Carné. Script; Jacques Prévert, Jacques Viot. Photo; Curt Courant, Philippe Agostini. Music; Maurice Jaubert. Cast; Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Jacqueline Laurent, René Génin, Mady Berry, Bernard Blier
France 1939 95mins.
Subtitled.
ISBN 1-55881-277-6
$19.95
