TOURMENTS

Tourments is a French film realized by Jacques Daniel-Norman, release in 1954.

Personal comments : Louis de Funès is marked in the credits, he plays the role of a private detective, he appears :

- 35 seconds at 11 minutes and 43 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 1 minute and 23 seconds at 15 minutes and 52 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 1 minute and 11 seconds at 31 minutes and 49 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 3 minutes and 55 seconds at 33 minutes and 40 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 1 minute and 27 seconds at 57 minutes and 38 seconds after the beginning of the movie
- 5 minutes and 35 seconds at 1 hour, 33 minutes and 18 seconds after the beginning of the movie

♦ Synopsis :

Following his love match with fragile Anne-Marie de Vandière, singer Jean-Jacques Duflot celebrates it gave up his career. The couple adopted the small Jean-Claude, who lives happy in Maison Lafitte. The true mother of Jean-Claude, Simone Rebeira, reappears and charges a not very scrupulous private detective, Eddy Gorlier, to recover her child. Its morbid jealousy pushes Anne-Marie to think that Jean-Jacques is the true father of the child. From where drama. It leaves her husband who takes again his career. Simone, conscious of the evil which it made, gives up Jean-Claude and the torments disappear for the couple which is reformed.

Specification sheet :

  • Title : Tourments
  • Realization : Jacques Daniel-Norman
  • Scenario : Pierre Maudru
  • Adaptation : Jacques Daniel-Norman
  • Dialogue : Jacques Daniel-Norman, Yvan Audouard
  • Production : Jean Lefait, Raymond Logaert
  • Society of production : Vasco Films
  • Distribution : Mondial Films
  • Music : Paul Misraki, René Silviano
  • Songs : René Silviano, Paul Misraki, Gérhard Winkler, Edmond P. Zaldivard - Bella donna, Un jour, il fait bon revenir, Soir Espagnol, C'est la fête des fleirs (Editions Ray Ventura)
  • Photography : Roger Fellous, assisted of Maurice Fellous, Jean-Paul Schwartz
  • Editing : Nicole Marko, assisted of Michèle Vacquand
  • Decorations : Louis Le Barbenchon, assisted of Pierre Duquesne
  • Sound : Pierre-Henry Goumy, assisted of Urbain Loiseau
  • Production assistant : Tony Saitor, Jean Léon
  • Centring : Noël Martin, assisted of Louis Stein
  • Make-up : Louis Dor, Rosine Planson, assisted of Daniel Albert
  • Script-girl : Sylvette Baudrot
  • General manager : Michel Mombailly
  • Manager interior designer : Pierre Lefait
  • Accessories : Alphonse Lebeuf
  • Suits : B. Brunoy is dressed by the house Almine
  • Tapestry-maker : Emile François
  • Film 35mm, black and white
  • Genre : Drama
  • Duration : 115 minutes
  • Date exit : April 23rd, 1954
  • Visa of exploitation : 14730

 

♦ Distribution :

  • Louis de Funès : Eddy Gorlier, private detective
  • Tino Rossi : Jean-Jacques Duflot, said : Tony Caylor, the former singer of good name
  • Blanchette Brunoy : Anne-Marie Duflot, the woman of Jean-Jacques
  • Jacqueline Porel : Simone Rebeira, the real mother of Jean-Claude
  • Charles Deschamps : Mr De Vandière, the father of Anne-Marie
  • Claudy Chapeland : Jean-Claude Duflot, the little boy
  • Raymond Cordy : Jo Braitone
  • Andrée Servilange : Mlle De Prinjelles, manager of the orphanage
  • Renée Corciade : Mme Prestat
  • Paul Azaïs : The father Bizule, the guard of construction site
  • Jean Berton : Victor, the butler
  • Jean Dunot : Lucien, the detective of the agency Gorlier
  • Léopoldo Francès : Rony, the black
  • Christian Brocard : Bob, the stable-lad
  • Jimmy Urbain : The young boy
  • Simone Logeart : Gertrude, the nurse
  • Jeanne Véniat : The maid
  • Jacqueline Marco : The nurse
  • Michèle Marcey : The assistant
  • André Richard : The trainer
  • Georges Cécyl : The friend in the races
  • René Forval : The player
  • De Pasquale : The photographer
  • Victor Vina : The doctor
  • Le Cigle : The jockey
  • Guy Moulinet
  • Renée Durety
  • Jacky Rollin

♦ Around the film :

  • The film was made from September 21st to October 26th, 1953 to the studios Paris Studio Cinema of Billancourt.

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