The Corsican Brothers (1939 film)
1939 film
- 3 May 1939 (1939-05-03)
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The Corsican Brothers (French: Frères corses) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Géo Kelber and Robert Siodmak and starring Jean Aquistapace, Pierre Brasseur and Lucienne Le Marchand.[1] [2] It is loosely inspired by the novella of the same title by Alexandre Dumas. Siodmak supervised the production and shot much of the location work in Corsica.
Synopsis
The attractive Parisian Gina marries an older Corsican forester, causing turmoil to his twin sons who are both on the receiving end of her advances.
Cast
- Jean Aquistapace as Bruno Ferrazi
- Pierre Brasseur as Tonio
- Paul Azaïs as André, le mauvais garçon
- Lucienne Le Marchand as Gina
- Ruth Pally as Maria
- Jean Brochard as Le gendarme
- Bruno Clair as Lorenzo
- Jacqueline Daix as Laeticia
- Jacques Erwin as Angelo
- Lucien Gallas as Jérôme, le contrebandier
- Zaïa Jollson as Nina
- Raymond Rognoni as Le curé
References
Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2. Pygmalion, 1986.
- Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
- Greco, Joseph. The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951. Universal-Publishers, 1999.
- Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links
- The Corsican Brothers at IMDb
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Films directed by Robert Siodmak
1930–1939
- People on Sunday (1930)
- Farewell (1930)
- Inquest (1931)
- About an Inquest (1931, MLV)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- Storms of Passion (1932)
- Quick (1932)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- The Weaker Sex (1933)
- The Crisis is Over (1934)
- La Vie parisienne (1936)
- Parisian Life (1936)
- The Great Refrain (1936)
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- White Cargo (1937)
- Mollenard (1938)
- The Corsican Brothers (1939)
- Personal Column (1939)
1941–1951
- West Point Widow (1941)
- Fly-by-Night (1942)
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
- Someone to Remember (1943)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Cobra Woman (1944)
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- The Suspect (1944)
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Dark Mirror (1946)
- Time Out of Mind (1947)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Criss Cross (1949)
- The Great Sinner (1949)
- The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
- Deported (1950)
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
1952–1969
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Flesh and the Woman (1954)
- Die Ratten (1955)
- My Father, the Actor (1956)
- The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
- Dorothea Angermann (1959)
- Magnificent Sinner (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- My Schoolfriend (1960)
- The Nina B. Affair (1961)
- Escape from East Berlin (1962)
- The Shoot (1964)
- The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
- The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
- Custer of the West (1967)
- Kampf um Rom (1968)
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