Fortune Favors the Brave (film)
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Directed by | Georges Méliès |
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Production company | Star Film Company |
Release date | 1908 |
Country | France |
Language | Silent |
Fortune Favors the Brave (French: Le Génie des cloches ou le Fils du sonneur, literally "The Genie of the Bells, or the Bellringer's Son") was a 1908 French silent fantasy film directed by Georges Méliès.
Plot[]
A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family.[1]
Production[]
A surviving production still reveals that Méliès appears in the film as a gnome; his son, André Méliès, plays the young boy.[2]
Release and reception[]
The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1394–1407 in its catalogues.[2]
The New York Mirror gave the film a brief review after its American release in December 1909, saying that it "will please the children, who will not be too critical of the stage management."[1]
The film is currently presumed lost.[2]
References[]
External links[]
- Fortune Favors the Brave at IMDb
- Silent films
- 1908 films
- Films directed by Georges Méliès
- French films
- Lost French films
- French silent short films
- French black-and-white films
- French fantasy films
- 1900s fantasy films
- 1908 lost films
- 1908 short films
- 1900s French film stubs