France
Category: Foreign
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FullscreenSKU: D12211
When a Dutch diamond dealer mysteriously turns up dead in a stolen car, the legendary Commissaire Maigret is determined to crack the case. After visiting the crime scene, the pipe-smoking detective finds himself tangled in a web of shady suspects and bizarre events--but can he find his way out? Jean Renoir directs this adaptation of ... more
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SKU: D74704
Jean Renoir's slapstick French satire, later remade as "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," stars Michel Simon as the tramp fished out of the Seine by Paris bookseller Charles Granval and taken to his home, only to throw the businessman and his family's lives into chaos. With Marcelle Hainia. 84 min. Standard; Soundtrack: French Dolby ... more
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FullscreenSKU: D05325
When the boss embezzles the company funds and is declared dead while fleeing the country, the workers at a publishing firm band together to produce a very successful series of "Arizona Jim" cowboy stories. All is well until the boss returns to cash in. Funny and allegorical tale from Jean Renoir stars Renee Lefevre, Jules Berry. 90 ... more
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La Bete Humaine(1938)
SKU: D51489
Based on an Emile Zola story, director Jean Renoir's moody drama follows a train engineer (Jean Gabin) who withholds information about a murder committed by a fellow railroad worker because of his attraction to the man's wife (Simone Simon). Gabin and Simon begin an affair and hatch a plan to kill her husband, with disastrous results. ... more
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SKU: D84168
A weekend shooting party at an upper-class French estate is the setting for director Jean Renoir's witty, acerbic look at the jaded and amoral lifestyles of the aristocracy in the days before World War II. Denounced at its premiere, the drama is now recognized as a masterpiece of world cinema. Roland Toutain, Nora Gregor, Marcel Dalio, ... more
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SKU: D73442
Made after his brief sojourn to Hollywood in the '40s, Jean Renoir's first color film is a lyric study of a British family living in postwar India, and the effect that a visiting relative, a wounded soldier, has on the household's three teenage girls. Nora Swinburne, Adrienne Corri, Radha, Thomas E. Breen star. 99 min. Standard; Soundtrack: ... more
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SKU: D71874
This three-disc boxed set of noted Renoir dramas opens with "The Golden Coach" (1952), in which a theatrical troupe tours South America in the 19th century and leading lady Anna Magnani ensnares three local men with her charms. With Duncan Lamont, Odoardo Spadaro; this is the original English-dialogue version. Next, Ingrid Bergman is ... more
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SKU: D69921
Five of Jean Renoir's classic films are featured in this three-disc set. Left alone and poor after her father dies and her uncle spends all of her money on liquor, a young girl is taken in by a kindly Bohemian family, only to be accused of theft, in the silent "Whirlpool of Fate" (1925). Catherine Hessling stars. An aspiring actress ... more
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