Napoleon Road
1953 film
- 14 October 1953 (1953-10-14)
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Napoleon Road (French: La route Napoléon) is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Pierre Fresnay, Henri Vilbert and Claude Laydu.[1] It was partly shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Serge Piménoff.
Synopsis
A chancer organises a series of package tours along a route said to have been taken by Napoleon in 1815 when in fact the Emperor never set foot there. The local inhabitants back up his story as they hope to cash in on the tourist boom.
Cast
- Pierre Fresnay as Édouard Martel
- Henri Vilbert as Blaise
- Claude Laydu as Pierre Marchand
- René Génin as Le curé
- Mireille Ozy as Stella
- Raphaël Patorni as Bonvent
- Fernand Sardou as Le maire de Bourg-sur-Bléone
- Henri Arius as Le boucher
- Fransined as Le pharmacien
- Nicolas Amato as Figuières
- Maurice Bénard as Le ministre
- Pierrette Caillol as La femme dudocteur
- Lucien Callamand as Sabatier- le garde-champêtre
- Serge Davin as Cabanis - le coiffeur
- Germaine de France as Madame Martel
- Jean Landier as Emery
- Julien Maffre as Un habitant
- Denise Precheur as Une employée
- Annie Roudier as Delphine
- Hélène Tossy as La postière
- Edmond Verva as Le père du jeune Victor
- Claude Laydu as Pierre Marchand
- Jean Panisse as Raphaël
- Marie Albe as Clarisse - la journaliste
References
- ^ BFI.org
External links
- Napoleon Road at IMDb
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Films directed by Jean Delannoy
- Paris-Deauville (1934)
- Tamara (1938)
- Golden Venus (1938)
- The Black Diamond (1941)
- Fever (1942)
- Gambling Hell (1942)
- The Murderer is Afraid at Night (1942)
- Pontcarral, Empire Colonel (1942)
- The Eternal Return (1943)
- The Hunchback (1944)
- Blind Desire (1945)
- Pastoral Symphony (1946)
- Les jeux sont faits (1947)
- To the Eyes of Memory (1948)
- The Secret of Mayerling (1949)
- God Needs Men (1950)
- Savage Triangle (1951)
- The Moment of Truth (1952)
- Napoleon Road (1953)
- Daughters of Destiny (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- Obsession (1954)
- The Little Rebels (1955)
- Marie Antoinette Queen of France (1956)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
- Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
- Guingette (1959)
- Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959)
- The Baron of the Locks (1960)
- Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)
- La Princesse de Clèves (1961)
- Rendezvous (1961)
- Imperial Venus (1962)
- Les amitiés particulières (1964)
- The Majordomo (1965)
- The Double Bed (1965)
- The Sultans (1966)
- Action Man (1967)
- Children of Mata Hari (1970)
- Not Dumb, the Bird (1972)
- The Crime of Pierre Lacaze (1983)
- The Enigmatic Mister S. (1987)
- Bernadette (1988)
- The Passion of Bernadette (1990)
- Mary of Nazareth (1995)
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