Captain Benoit
1938 film
- 30 December 1938 (1938-12-30)
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Captain Benoit (French: Le capitaine Benoît) is a 1938 French thriller film directed by Maurice de Canonge and starring Jean Murat, Mireille Balin and Madeleine Robinson.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was the fourth and final entry in a series of films featuring Captain Benoît, a member of the Deuxième Bureau, following Second Bureau, Wolves Between Them and A Man to Kill.
Synopsis
An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.
Cast
- Jean Murat as Capitaine Benoît
- Mireille Balin as Véra Agatcheff
- Madeleine Robinson as Denise Benoît
- Raymond Aimos as Vic, le policier
- Jean Mercanton as Le prince Joachim / Jean-Jacques de Landelle
- Jean Témerson as Tripoff, le touriste
- Jean Brochard as Mercadier
- Jean Daurand as Griffon
- Hugues de Bagratide as Le sultan
- Marguerite de Morlaye
- Nilda Duplessy
- Jean Heuzé as Un officier
- Philippe Janvier as Un officier
- Armand Larcher as Le préfet
- Pierre Magnier as Le colonel
- Jacques Mattler as Un conjuré
- Marthe Mellot as La grand-mère
- Alexandre Mihalesco as Adhémar
- Micheline Rolla
- Georges Serrano
References
- ^ Spring p.168
Bibliography
- Spring, D.W. Propaganda, Politics and Film, 1918–45. Springer, 1982.
External links
- Captain Benoit at IMDb
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Films directed by Maurice de Canonge
- Stowaway Olive (1931)
- Olive se marie (1931)
- Monsieur cambriole (1931)
- Le Secret de l'émeraude (1935)
- Inspector Grey (1936)
- À minuit, le 7 (1937)
- L'empreinte rouge (1937)
- Boulot the Aviator (1937)
- Un soir à Marseille (1938)
- Grisou (1938)
- Gosse de riche (1938)
- Saint Theresa of Lisieux (1938)
- Captain Benoit (1938)
- Thérèse Martin (1939)
- The Last Metro (1945)
- Special Mission (1946)
- A Cop (1947)
- Judicial Error (1948)
- La Bataille du feu (1949)
- Last Hour, Special Edition (1949)
- The Man from Jamaica (1950)
- The Two Girls (1951)
- In the Land of the Sun (1952)
- Love Always Love (1952)
- Boum sur Paris (1953)
- The Price of Love (1955)
- Three of the Canebière (1955)
- Three Sailors (1957)
- Federal Police (1958)
- Happy Arenas (1958)
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