It Happened in Aden
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Directed by | Michel Boisrond |
Written by | Jean Aurel Michel Boisrond Constance Colline Jacques Emmanuel |
Based on | The Environs of Aden by Pierre Benoît |
Produced by | Simon Barstoff |
Starring | André Luguet Jacques Dacqmine Dany Robin |
Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
Edited by | Claudine Bouché |
Music by | Georges Van Parys |
Production company | S.B. Films |
Distributed by | Cocinor |
Release date | 22 August 1956 |
Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
It Happened in Aden (French: C'est arrivé à Aden...) is a 1956 French historical comedy film directed by Michel Boisrond and starring André Luguet, Jacques Dacqmine and Dany Robin.[1] It is based on the 1940 novel The Environs of Aden by Pierre Benoît.
The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.
Synopsis[]
In the late nineteenth century, a French theatrical troupe become stranded in the British colony of Aden where the officers of the garrison woo the leading stars. One of them Albine attracts the interest of a local Prince there to sign a treaty with the British, leading to his kidnapping her.
Cast[]
- André Luguet as Sir Richard Wilkinson – le gouverneur d'Aden
- Jacques Dacqmine as Le major Burton
- Dany Robin as Albine
- Robert Manuel as Zafarana
- Elina Labourdette as Simone
- Edmond Ardisson as Le patron
- Jean Bretonnière as Prince de Khamarkar
- as Margaret
- Georges Chamarat as Le capitaine du navire
- Maurice Dorléac
- Jacques Duby as Gremilly
- Michel Etcheverry as Le pasteur Sanderman
- as Joyce
- Clément Harari as Abdullah
- Charles Lemontier
- Michael Lonsdale as Sinclair
- as Elizabeth
- as Lucette
- Robert Pizani as Hubert Robert
- Claude Rich as Price
- as Clairville
- as Ali
- as Lusignan
References[]
- ^ Hayward p.399
Bibliography[]
- Hayward, Susan. French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film. Intellect Books, 2010.
External links[]
Categories:
- French-language films
- 1956 films
- French films
- French historical comedy films
- 1950s historical comedy films
- Films directed by Michel Boisrond
- Films based on French novels
- Films set in the 19th century
- Films set in Aden
- 1950s French film stubs