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Jean-Roger Caussimon has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1970s.
The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966
Comedy · Crime
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Dir. Jean Renoir · With Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Dir. André Hunebelle · With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Mylène Demongeot
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch
