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Dangerous Games

Original title: Les jeux dangereux
  • 1958
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
5.9/10
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Dangerous Games (1958)
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A poor girl in Paris's Menilmontant neighborhood needs to get a lawyer for her brother, accused of killing a cop.She and her cronies kidnap a spoiled youth, the only son of a bourgeois coupl... Read allA poor girl in Paris's Menilmontant neighborhood needs to get a lawyer for her brother, accused of killing a cop.She and her cronies kidnap a spoiled youth, the only son of a bourgeois couple, he's gone to the area to study violin.A poor girl in Paris's Menilmontant neighborhood needs to get a lawyer for her brother, accused of killing a cop.She and her cronies kidnap a spoiled youth, the only son of a bourgeois couple, he's gone to the area to study violin.

  • Director
    • Pierre Chenal
  • Writers
    • René Masson
    • Paul Andréota
    • Pierre Chenal
  • Stars
    • Jean Servais
    • Pascale Audret
    • Joël Flateau
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.9/10
    56
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    • Director
      • Pierre Chenal
    • Writers
      • René Masson
      • Paul Andréota
      • Pierre Chenal
    • Stars
      • Jean Servais
      • Pascale Audret
      • Joël Flateau
    • 2User reviews
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    Jean Servais
    Jean Servais
    • Fournier, le détective privé
    Pascale Audret
    Pascale Audret
    • Fleur
    Joël Flateau
    • La Puce
    Fabrice Bessy
    • Alain Leroy-Gomez
    • (as François Simon-Bessy)
    Jimmy Urbain
    • Le mécano
    Jacques Moulières
    • Couscous
    • (as Jacques Moulieres)
    Claude Berri
    Claude Berri
    • Un jeune
    Jacques Faburel
    Olivier Henry
    Renzo Poldi
    • Pierrot
    Jean-François Poron
    • Julien
    • (as Jean Poron)
    Sami Frey
    Sami Frey
    • Arpia
    Georgette Anys
    Georgette Anys
    • La femme devenue folle à la mort de son fils
    Jean-Roger Caussimon
    Jean-Roger Caussimon
    • Bourdieux
    • (as J.R. Caussimon)
    Élida Dey
    • Norma
    • (as Elida Dey)
    Yvette Etiévant
    Yvette Etiévant
    • La mère de Fleur
    • (as Yvette Etievant)
    Jim Gérald
      Judith Magre
      Judith Magre
      • Éliane Fournier
      • Director
        • Pierre Chenal
      • Writers
        • René Masson
        • Paul Andréota
        • Pierre Chenal
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      8nicholas.rhodes

      Be careful where you take your violin tutorials !!

      Little known film from the fifties about a kidnapping by adolescents for money of a rich man's son who goes to take violin lessons in a popular quarter of Paris. The money is needed to pay for the legal costs of defending the brother of one of the girls who has committed a crime (shot a policeman). Mostly filmed in the Belleville area (like Le Ballon Rouge), though film reviews erroneously describe the area as Montmartre. This part of Paris was razed to the ground during the seventies and eighties and is now unrecognizeable since replaced by a large Park. In addition to the well made story, the film has documentary interest was being one of the best records of the Belleville Area of Paris. Unfortunately, it is only in Black and White. The actor who plays the kidnap victim, François Simon, is today a well-known TV presentor in France under the pseudonym of FABRICE. The film is well worth seeing for all of you who might be interested in 50's Paris (that was the best time to see the city) but is unavailable on videocassette or DVD.
      7dbdumonteil

      Forbidden games

      Pierre Chenal was a minor but interesting director who in the late thirties was the first to transfer to the screen "the postman always rings twice".His masterpiece was "la foire aux chimères" (all Erich Von Stroheim's fans MUST see that work)where he introduced an extraordinary dreamlike atmosphere which we also find in inferior efforts such as " la maison du maltais" or "l'alibi".

      "Les jeux dangereux" seems realistic at first sight.Actually ,it's almost as offbeat ,as unusual as the aforementioned films."Game" is the keyword and when he puts the pieces of the jigsaw together again that the private eye realizes that it's a child's game (the water pistol is the best "clue").

      A teenage girl (a beautiful Pascale Audret,singer Hugues Aufray's sister, she resembles Audrey Hepburn),whose brother is in jail because he has shot a policeman,tries to get him the best lawyer.So helped by her pack ,she kidnaps an adolescent -poisoned by his mother's protection and whose father is a stingy hateful bourgeois-and they lock him in a cellar.So begins the game which will sometimes verge on tragedy.These youngsters (with the exception of Sami Frey's character,the only one who acts as a "man" so to speak).Everyone plays ,and after all,the victim himself plays the violin,plays cards with his jailer.The adults are not models for them anyway ,being mean like the rich kid's father,his over-possessive mother or the two-bit detective 's embittered wife.

      Even the love story between Audret and her prisoner makes sense.And even if this is a rather happy end ,the establishment has won anyway.But the private eye's last words (it's my reward) restore our faith in grown -ups

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        Lyrics by Roger Vilard

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      • Release date
        • December 19, 1958 (France)
      • Countries of origin
        • Italy
        • France
      • Language
        • French
      • Also known as
        • Die Ratten von Paris
      • Filming locations
        • Belleville, Paris, France
      • Production companies
        • Films Metzger et Woog
        • Zodiaque Productions
        • Cino del Duca
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 35 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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