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Francis Blanche

French writer, actor and humorist
July 20, 1921 (July 6, 1974)
Fr. 1974. Satire by Alain Corneau with Michel Bouquet, Allyn Ann McLerie, Michel Vitold. In the year 2222, a man kept in a state of hibernation wakes up and shares his adventure regarding the legalization of drugs in France.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1974. Police comedy by Claude Vital with Jacques Dutronc, Mireille Darc, Axelle Abbadie. In order to avoid the takeover of the American crime syndicate, the wife of the dying head of the French underworld recruits a lowly canvasser to ensure the succession.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1973. Crime drama by Alain Brunet with Hardy Krüger, Raymond Pellegrin, Francis Blanche. After escaping from prison with the help of a warden, a man undertakes a major theft from a diamond dealer.
Runtime: 97 min.

Enuff Is Enuff

V.O.: J'ai mon voyage
Can. 1973. Comedy by Denis Héroux with Jean Lefebvre, Dominique Michel, René Simard. A French person living in Quebec takes his family on a journey across Canada after accepting a position in Vancouver.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1973. Crime drama by Pierre Grimblat with Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, John Moulder-Brown. In a rich, flowery house, a family lives with the fear of death lurking behind everyone before it strikes inexorably.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1971. Drama by Richard Balducci with Maurice Ronet, Josephine Chaplin, Vittorio De Sica. A disgraced journalist gets into trouble by revealing the affair between an American politician's daughter and a Black man.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Jean Dewever with Georges Géret, Sylva Koscina, Christian Barbier. A man sets out in a van to look for his daughter, taking his wife and children with him.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1971. Comedy by Philippe Clair with Francis Blanche, Sydney Chaplin, Aldo Maccione. After receiving a mobster's heart through a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on criminal exploits.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1970. Comedy by Jacques Poitrenaud with Michel Serrault, Francis Blanche, Colette Castel. Placed at the head of a company, a gentle man ends up becoming a harsh and uncompromising boss.
Runtime: 85 min.

Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?

V.O.: Êtes-vous fiancée à un marin grec ou à un pilote de ligne?
Fr. 1970. Mores comedy by Jean Aurel with Jean Yanne, Françoise Fabian, Nicole Calfan. After their two children run away from home, a divorcing couple reviews their decision.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1970. Burlesque by Philippe Clair with Francis Blanche, Corinne Le Poulain, Gérard Rinaldi. Five eccentric rugby players get mixed up in an election campaign in a village in Provence.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Jean-Claude Dague with Francis Blanche, Michel Galabru, Marielle Goitschel. Exhausted by his wife's tyranny, a man flees to Paris where his resemblance to a gangster leads to many adventures.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Raymond Leboursier with Jacques Jouanneau, Tina Buranzo, Francis Blanche. Thanks to a sleeping pill, a butcher has dreams that allow him to predict the outcome of horse races.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Raoul André with Francis Blanche, Michel Serrault, Darry Cowl. An Italian gangster jeopardizes two members of his daughter-in-law's family in order to gain their complicity in a robbery.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Michael Lonsdale. A veterinarian wants to create a centre where men would come to the aid of women who are deprived of love.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Francis Rigaud with Roger Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Francis Blanche. An employee at a large car dealership tricks his brother into believing that he is the owner.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Roland Quignon with Francis Blanche, Marthe Mercadier, Jean Poiret. A group of contest winners go on a winter vacation in a hotel where they encounter many mishaps.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1969. Comedy by Raoul André with Jean Lefebvre, Annie Cordy, Francis Blanche. To impress a beautiful girl, a shy perfumer wants to become a gangster.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1968. Satire by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Jean Tissier, Francis Blanche. A teacher goes to war against television.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1968. Satire by Gérard Pirès with Annie Girardot, Jean Yanne, Francis Blanche. Feeling neglected by her husband, a young woman believes that she lacks erotic attraction.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1967. Crime drama by Georges Lautner with Mireille Darc, Hardy Krüger, Maurice Biraud. While waiting to commit a robbery in Lebanon, a mobster falls in love with a pretty girl.
Runtime: 100 min.

La Grosse Pagaille

V.O.: La Feldmarescialla
It. 1967. Comedy by Steno with Francis Blanche, Rita Pavone, Mario Girotti. The Gestapo want to seize his invention, therefore a young scientist flees with its owner and an American aviator.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1967. Mores drama by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli. The young wife of a Parisian surgeon is blackmailed by a friend of the couple, who discover that during the day she is a prostitute in a brothel.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1967. Adventures by Jacques Poitrenaud with Roger Hanin, Corinne Marchand, Francis Blanche. The adventures of an airplane pilot sentenced to death and delivered by political exiles.
Runtime: 88 min.
Runtime: 88 min.

The Oldest Profession

V.O.: Le Plus vieux métier du monde
Fr. 1967. Sketches by Franco Indovina, Mauro Bolognini, Philippe de Broca, Michael Pfleghar, Claude Autant-Lara, Jean-Luc Godard with Michèle Mercier, Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau. Six stories of prostitutes taking place at different times.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Raoul André with Francis Blanche, Darry Cowl, Micheline Dax. A scientist from Central Europe agrees to come to France to work on a new invention.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1966. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Claude Rich, Francis Blanche, Michel Serrault. A clever forger rearranges marriages by changing civil registry records.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Michel Drach with Edwige Feuillère, Jean Poiret, Marie-José Nat. An automobile has several owners.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Jean Becker with Pierre Vernier, Nina Demestre, Pierre Brasseur. The theft of a microfilm leads to a series of crazy adventures.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Jacques Poitrenaud with Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault, Francis Blanche. A hatter tries to hide an illegal gambling den.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Guy Lefranc with Roger Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Francis Blanche. Russian spies seize a cow that was used as a guinea pig in an experiment to increase the yield of dairy cows.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Roland Quignon with Francis Blanche, Marthe Mercadier, Gabriello. During a weekend in the countryside, a family is annoyed by various people.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Francis Rigaud with Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Michel Galabru. Various people are trying to take over a valuable altarpiece.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1964. Burlesque by Jean-Claude Chambon with Charles Denner, Michel Galabru, Jean Rochefort. Three tramps start to swindle.
Runtime: 81 min.
Fr. 1964. Drama by Christian-Jaque with Claude Rich, Francis Blanche, France Anglade. In 1942, an SS officer interrupts a birthday dinner to demand two hostages to be shot.
Runtime: 95 min.

La Cité de l'indicible peur

V.O.: La Grande Frousse
Fr. 1964. Police comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche. A police officer pursues an escaped convict in a village terrorized by a monster.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Francis Rigaud with Roger Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Francis Blanche. Two friends are involved in the theft of a jewel.
Runtime: 85 min.
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Jean Girault with Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Maria Pacôme. Two baggage handlers misplace a diamond dealer's suitcase and try to find it.
Runtime: 70 min.
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Georges Lautner with Lino Ventura, Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier. A French agent is delegated to the widow of an arms trafficker to retrieve plans.
Runtime: 109 min.
Fr. 1964. Sketches by Claude Berri, Bertrand Tavernier, Charles L. Bitsch, Eric Schlumberger, Claude Chabrol with Francis Blanche, Michel Auclair, Michel Piccoli. Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1963. Police comedy by Georges Lautner with Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier, Francis Blanche. When an old gangster dies, he entrusts his belongings and his daughter to a friend.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Pierre Chevalier with Pierre Doris, France Anglade, Adrienne Servantie. The misadventures of a new synthetic fabric inventor.
Runtime: 84 min.

Sweet and Sour

V.O.: Dragées au poivre
Fr. 1963. Satire by Jacques Baratier with Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Elisabeth Wiener. Young film lovers decide to make cin
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1963. Comedy by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret. A man claims to have received a sign from heaven to loot church trunks.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Georges Lautner with Bernard Blier, Jacques Monod, Danièle Delorme. As a juror in a trial, a murderer strives to have acquitted the man who is accused in his place.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1962. Sketches by Jean Girault, Philippe de Broca, Jack Pinoteau with Francis Blanche, Louis de Funès, Darry Cowl. The misadventures of the winners of various contests.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1962. Sketches by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Stefania Sandrelli, Catherine Diamant, Anne-Marie Sauty. The amorous initiation of various young girls.
Runtime: 88 min.

Petites Femmes et haute finance

V.O.: Anonima cocottes
It. 1962. Comedy by Camillo Mastrocinque with Renato Rascel, Anita Ekberg, Francis Blanche. A bank manager calls on a client to try to compromise an accountant.
Runtime: 92 min.
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Raoul André with Louise Carletti, Mouloudji, Francis Blanche. A young resistance fighter takes refuge in an insane asylum.

Who Stole the Body

V.O.: Les Bricoleurs
Fr. 1962. Comedy by Jean Girault with Francis Blanche, Darry Cowl, Elke Sommer. To make a successful sale, two real estate agents must find a murderer.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1962. Police comedy by Marc Allégret with Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Pierre Brasseur. A customs officer is kidnapped by gangsters who think he is a hitman.
Runtime: 85 min.
It. 1962. Police comedy by Bernard Roland with Henri Salvador, Francis Blanche, Valeria Fabrizi. An amateur detective is battling with drug dealers.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1962. Comedy by Francis Blanche with Francis Blanche, Alfred Adam, Jacqueline Maillan. A bourgeois from Provence goes to hunt lions in Africa.
Runtime: 105 min.

Romulus and the Sabines

V.O.: Il Ratto delle Sabine
It. 1961. Adventures by Richard Pottier with Roger Moore, Mylène Demongeot, Folco Lulli. Having no women, a band of Roman brigands seize young Sabine girls by force.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1961. Police comedy by Georges Lautner with Martine Carol, Félix Marten, Francis Blanche. With the help of a commissioner, a quirky couple sets out to find their nanny's son, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by Jean Girault with Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Gilberte Géniat. Throughout their working day, two delivery people of a Parisian department store live many adventures.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1961. Burlesque by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Gérard Hoffmann, Véronique Nordey, Francis Blanche. When the director of a company dies, four ambitious men compete for the vacant position.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Francis Claude, Danielle Gaubert, Jean Sorel. Henry IV is looking for a complaisant husband for a young girl he wants to make his mistress.
Runtime: 83 min.
Fr. 1961. Crime drama by Edmond T. Gréville with Dawn Addams, Jean Servais, Claude Brasseur. A middle-aged man marries a young actress who will give him a hard time.
Runtime: 90 min.

Love and the Frenchwoman

V.O.: La Française et l'amour
Fr. 1960. Sketches by Henri Decoin, Jean Delannoy, Michel Boisrond, René Clair, Henri Verneuil, Christian-Jaque, Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Jacqueline Porel, Darry Cowl, Noël Roquevert. Various aspects of the love life of the French woman.
Runtime: 135 min.

A Couple

V.O.: Un Couple
Fr. 1960. Psychological drama by Jean-Pierre Mocky with Juliette Mayniel, Jean Kosta, Francis Blanche. A young household finds that their initial love has grown cold.
Runtime: 85 min.

Le Chat miaulera trois fois

V.O.: A noi piace freddo
It. 1960. Comedy by Steno with Ugo Tognazzi, Yvonne Furneaux, Francis Blanche.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1960. Comedy by Jean Girault with Darry Cowl, Francis Blanche, Béatrice Altariba. Two merry men, freeloaders by profession, have various misadventures.
Runtime: 80 min.
Fr. 1959. Mores comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Yves Robert. Two peasant families are at odds following incidents that occurred during the Franco-German war of 1870.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1959. Crime drama by Claude Bernard-Aubert with Antonella Lualdi, Gérard Blain, Pierre Bellemare. The son of a married couple, who are about to earn a fortune, is kidnapped.
Runtime: 77 min.
Fr. 1959. Burlesque by Jean Boyer with Darry Cowl, Line Renaud, Francis Blanche.
Runtime: 81 min.

Babette Goes to War

V.O.: Babette s'en va-t-en guerre
Fr. 1959. Comedy by Christian-Jaque with Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Charrier, Francis Blanche. During the war, a small provincial girl is involved in an espionage case.
Runtime: 105 min.
Fr. 1959. Comedy by Jean Bastia with Louis de Funès, Jean Richard, Francis Blanche. An ancestor leaves his fortune to the one of his descendants who will suffer from an incurable disease.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1959. Comedy by Carlo Rim with Darry Cowl, Yves Robert, Béatrice Altariba. After having gone through the war without too much trouble, a young man becomes a teacher in a college where he applies very personal educational methods.
Runtime: 88 min.
Fr. 1958. Burlesque by Jean Laviron with Roger Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault, Francis Blanche. A police officer is assigned to protect a Latin American dignitary.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1956. Comedy by Maurice Régamey with Fernandel, Rellys, Andrex. A man from Marseilles shares the history of his city with a journalist.
Runtime: 78 min.
Fr. 1954. Burlesque by Jean Loubignac with Robert Dhéry, Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières. A vice commissioner investigates incognito in a music hall where rehearsals for a new show are taking place.
Runtime: 65 min.
Fr. 1954. Comedy by Gilles Grangier with Zappy Max, Francis Blanche, Gabriello. Disappointed in love, a magician has a dream where he overcomes his difficulties.
Fr. 1953. Crime drama by Christian Stengel with Madeleine Robinson, Erich von Stroheim, Philippe Lemaire. When a janitor dies, the police look for the culprit among the tenants.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1952. Comedy by Robert Vernay with Zappy Max, Danièle Godet, Francis Blanche. A middle-aged woman is romantically involved with a radio host.
Runtime: 87 min.
Fr. 1948. Police comedy by Raoul André with Louise Carletti, Marguerite Moreno, Pierre Cour. Young people search for the killer of a radio announcer.
Runtime: 88 min.

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