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Le Bossu (1959 film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Le bossu
| image =
| caption =
| director = Andr Hunebelle
| producer = Paul Cadeac d'Arbaud
| writer = Jean Halain
Pierre Foucaud
Andr Hunebelle
| based_on =
| starring = Jean Marais
Bourvil
Sabine Sesselmann
| music = Jean Marion
| cinematography = Marcel Grignon
| editing = Jean Feyte
| distributor =
| released =
| runtime = 104 minutes
| country = France
Italy
| language = French
| budget =
| gross = 5,845,980 admissions (France)
}}
'Le Bossu' is a French-Italian swashbuckler film starring Jean Marais and directed by Andr Hunebelle. The film also featured Bourvil, possibly the most popular French comedian of the time. So successful was the formula that Hunebelle teamed up the same two actors for his next action film, 'Captain Blood'.[http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Le_Bossu_1959_rev.html Films de France: Le Bossu (1960)]
Plot
Duke Philippe de Nevers (Hubert Nol) is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Isabelle (Sabine Sesselmann). His rival Philippe de Gonzague (Franois Chaumette) hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompanied by Henri de Lagardre (Jean Marais) when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardre cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil (Bourvil) he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.
Production
The film was shot between May 19 and July 28 in the "Franstudio" of Saint-Maurice and in the Pyrnes-Orientales. The scene showing how three henchmen are sent to Spain for Lagardre and the duke's daughter were shot at the Pont du Diable (Cret).
'Matre d'armes' Andr Gardre was the accountable instructor concerning the choreography of all fencing scenes.
Guy Delorme, who would play Comte de Rochefort in Bernard Borderie's 1961 version of The Three Musketeers appears here as a henchman.
Sabine Sesselmann was dubbed by Gilberte Aubry (as Aurore de Nevers) and Jacqueline Porel (as Isabelle de Caylus).
Cast
See also
* 'On Guard' (1997)
References
'This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.'
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