Flesh and the Woman
1954 film
- 12 April 1954 (1954-04-12)
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Italy
Flesh and the Woman (French: Le Grand Jeu) is a 1954 French-Italian drama film directed by Robert Siodmak.[1] It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was released in the USA under the title Flesh and the Woman, and in the UK as The Card of Fate. It is a remake of the 1934 film Le Grand Jeu.
Plot
After an affair with a young woman named Sylvia the Frenchman Pierre Martel leaves Paris and goes to Algeria because he wants to start over. His wife refuses to follow him. Dismayed about all this he decides to join the French Foreign Legion. As a soldier he runs into a look-alike of Sylvia.
Cast
- Gina Lollobrigida as Sylvia Sorrego / Helena Ricci
- Jean-Claude Pascal as Pierre Martel
- Arletty as Blanche
- Raymond Pellegrin as Mario
- Peter van Eyck as Fred
- Jean Témerson as Xavier Noblet
- Jean Hébey as Brigadier
- Paul Amiot as the capitain
- Odette Barencey as Gertrude
- Charles Bayard
- Gérard Buhr as a legionnaire
- Jo Dest as the bistro keeper
- Leila Farida as Aïcha
- Gabrielle Fontan as the sister
- Lila Kedrova as Rose
- Odette Laure as Mario's girl-friend
- Darling Légitimus
- Margo Lion as the cleaner
- Alix Mahieux as Mado
- Umberto Melnati
- Bernard Musson as the painter
- Marcel Rouzé as the receptionist
- Roger Vincent as the hotel keeper
- Georges Vitray
References
External links
- Flesh and the Woman at IMDb
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Films directed by Robert Siodmak
1930–1939
- People on Sunday (1930)
- Farewell (1930)
- Inquest (1931)
- About an Inquest (1931, MLV)
- The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
- Storms of Passion (1932)
- Quick (1932)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- The Weaker Sex (1933)
- The Crisis is Over (1934)
- La Vie parisienne (1936)
- Parisian Life (1936)
- The Great Refrain (1936)
- Compliments of Mister Flow (1936)
- White Cargo (1937)
- Mollenard (1938)
- The Corsican Brothers (1939)
- Personal Column (1939)
1941–1951
- West Point Widow (1941)
- Fly-by-Night (1942)
- The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
- Someone to Remember (1943)
- Son of Dracula (1943)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Cobra Woman (1944)
- Christmas Holiday (1944)
- The Suspect (1944)
- The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
- The Spiral Staircase (1946)
- The Killers (1946)
- The Dark Mirror (1946)
- Time Out of Mind (1947)
- Cry of the City (1948)
- Criss Cross (1949)
- The Great Sinner (1949)
- The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)
- Deported (1950)
- The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
1952–1969
- The Crimson Pirate (1952)
- Flesh and the Woman (1954)
- Die Ratten (1955)
- My Father, the Actor (1956)
- The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
- Dorothea Angermann (1959)
- Magnificent Sinner (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- My Schoolfriend (1960)
- The Nina B. Affair (1961)
- Escape from East Berlin (1962)
- The Shoot (1964)
- The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965)
- The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965)
- Custer of the West (1967)
- Kampf um Rom (1968)
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