Simone Signoret gives a notable performance in this atmospheric French film noir, which
was directed by her husband at the time, Yves Allégret... [More...]
Director Yves Allégret and screenwriter Jacques Sigurd followed their successful
Dédée
d’Anvers (1948) with this bleak noir melodrama featuring rising star Gérard
Philipe... [More...]
With Manèges, director Yves Allégret paints his most cynical and
intensely pessimistic picture of human nature. A gullible husband is manipulated
by his unscrupulous social climbing wife and then morally... [More...]
Les Orgueilleux was an ambitious attempt to break with the conventional romantic
drama which dominated French cinema in the early 1950s. Filmed mainly on location
in Mexico and with some graphic depictions of human suffering... [More...]
This fairly standard crime thriller Yves Allégret has an exceptional cast, including
Edwige Feuillère and Jean Servais. A young Alain Delon distinguishes himself
in his first film role... [More...]
