Good Luck (1935 film)
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Written by | Sacha Guitry |
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Cinematography | Jean Bachelet |
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Music by | Vincent Scotto |
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Distributed by | Les Grandes Exclusivités Européennes |
Release date | 20 September 1935 |
Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Good Luck (French: Bonne chance!) is a 1935 French romantic comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and Fernand Rivers and starring Guitry, Jacqueline Delubac and Pauline Carton.[1] In it a woman becomes convinced a man she has met is a good luck charm after she wins a lottery.
It was shot at the Billancourt Studios and on location in Paris and Monaco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.
In 1940 it was remade as an American film Lucky Partners starring Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers.
Cast[]
- Sacha Guitry as Claude
- Jacqueline Delubac as Marie
- Pauline Carton as La mère de Marie
- as Le maire de Marie
- Montel as Un vieux monsieur qui passe
- as Prosper
- Rivers Cadet as Le greffier
- as Gastion Lepeltier
- as Henriette Lepeltier
- as L'élégante
- as L'épicière
- Madeleine Suffel as La gantière
- Antoine as Antoine, le coiffeur
- as L'employé de banque
- as Une radeuse
- Gustave Huberdeau
- Robert Seller as Le maître d'hôtel
- as Le marchand de tableaux
Critical reception[]
Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, describing it as "a charming silly film in the Clair genre, a lyrical absurdity". Greene notes that it is only cinema and music that can produce such uplifting transience and joy.[2]
References[]
- ^ Oscherwitz & Higgins p.197
- ^ Greene, Graham (28 February 1935). "Things to Come/Bonne Chance". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 55–56. ISBN 0192812866.)
Bibliography[]
- Dayna Oscherwitz & MaryEllen Higgins. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
External links[]
- French-language films
- 1935 romantic comedy films
- French romantic comedy films
- 1935 films
- French films
- Films directed by Sacha Guitry
- Films directed by Fernand Rivers
- Films shot at Billancourt Studios
- French black-and-white films
- 1930s French film stubs