Remorques
- 1941
- 1h 31m
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The captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone... Read allThe captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard.The captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard.
Madeleine Renaud
- Yvonne Laurent
- (as Madeleine Renaud de la Comédie Francaise)
Charles Blavette
- Gabriel Tanguy
- (as Blavette)
Jean Dasté
- Le radio
- (as Jean Daste)
René Bergeron
- Georges
- (as Bergeron)
Henri Poupon
- Le docteur Maulette
- (as Poupon)
Marcel Pérès
- Le Meur
- (as Perez)
Marcel Duhamel
- Pierre Poubennec
- (as Duhamel)
Henri Pons
- Roger
- (as Pons)
Léonce Corne
- Un invité à la noce
- (uncredited)
Lucien Coëdel
- Un marin du 'Cyclope'
- (uncredited)
Henri Crémieux
- L'administrateur
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe film's production was heavily disrupted by the Second World War. Filming started in July 1939 but was interrupted on 3 September due to France declaring war on Germany, with director Jean Grémillon and lead actor Jean Gabin being mobilized. With a special permission granted, shooting resumed on 6 May 1940 but was interrupted again in June with the German army at the gates of Paris, leading producer Joseph Lucachevitch to flee to the USA while assistant director Louis Daquin and editor Marcel Cravenne took the film reels to the south of France, in Marseille and Pau. Filming resumed for the final time under German occupation in 1941, despite both lead actors Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan having fled to the USA and concluded on 2 September, with some planned scenes having never been shot.
- ConnectionsEdited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
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Considered by the French to be among their most gifted directors, Jean Grémillon is fated to be little known abroad except to a coterie of cinéphiles. He had envisioned a far more realistic storm sequence to be filmed in Brittany but this was deemed impracticable for health and safety reasons and he was obliged to shoot in UFA's studios at Billancourt. Nonetheless this sequence still comes off pretty well. Filming came to a grinding halt with the outbreak of war and it was not completed and released until 1941 by which time its two stars had gone to Hollywoodland.
Navigating the stormy waters of desire are Jean Gabin and Michéle Morgan, one of Cinema's most memorable couples. On-screen chemistry is hard to define but their deep fondness for each other off-screen is evident whilst her ethereal quality is perfectly allied to his earthiness. As his wife is Madeleine Renaud who was later to star in Grémillon's excellent but underrated 'Le Ciel est a vous'. Renowned as a stage actress her sporadic appearances in film represent quality over quantity. Fernand Ledoux makes the most of a thankless role and if you blink you'll miss an uncredited Alain Cuny.
Stunning cinematography by one of his nation's finest, Armand Thirard, powerful score by Roland-Manuel whilst at the insistence of Grémillon and Gabin, the screenplay has been entrusted to Jacques Prévert whose poetic/realist style is perfectly suited to this tale of doomed love and the forces of Nature.
Grémillon's ambitious projects were constantly thwarted by the constraints of commercial cinema but his comparatively small output is a legacy to be treasured.
Considered by the French to be among their most gifted directors, Jean Grémillon is fated to be little known abroad except to a coterie of cinéphiles. He had envisioned a far more realistic storm sequence to be filmed in Brittany but this was deemed impracticable for health and safety reasons and he was obliged to shoot in UFA's studios at Billancourt. Nonetheless this sequence still comes off pretty well. Filming came to a grinding halt with the outbreak of war and it was not completed and released until 1941 by which time its two stars had gone to Hollywoodland.
Navigating the stormy waters of desire are Jean Gabin and Michéle Morgan, one of Cinema's most memorable couples. On-screen chemistry is hard to define but their deep fondness for each other off-screen is evident whilst her ethereal quality is perfectly allied to his earthiness. As his wife is Madeleine Renaud who was later to star in Grémillon's excellent but underrated 'Le Ciel est a vous'. Renowned as a stage actress her sporadic appearances in film represent quality over quantity. Fernand Ledoux makes the most of a thankless role and if you blink you'll miss an uncredited Alain Cuny.
Stunning cinematography by one of his nation's finest, Armand Thirard, powerful score by Roland-Manuel whilst at the insistence of Grémillon and Gabin, the screenplay has been entrusted to Jacques Prévert whose poetic/realist style is perfectly suited to this tale of doomed love and the forces of Nature.
Grémillon's ambitious projects were constantly thwarted by the constraints of commercial cinema but his comparatively small output is a legacy to be treasured.
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