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Marcel Dalio has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1970s. 6 rank in the Top 10%, led by Grand Illusion.
1962
Comedy · Romance
After two years in Paris, chauffeur's daughter Sabrina returns home elegantly transformed and immediately catches the attention of David, the playboy son of her father's rich employers. David woos and wins Sabrina, who has always been in love with him, however their romance is threatened by David's serious older brother Linus, who runs the family business and is relying on David to marry an heiress in order for a crucial merger to take place.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.
Dir. Jean Renoir · With Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Dir. William Wyler · With Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach
Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the disapproval of Gus' rich father, Esmond Sr., who thinks that Lorelei is just after his money. When Lorelei goes on a cruise accompanied only by her best friend, Dorothy Shaw, Esmond Sr. hires Ernie Malone, a private detective, to follow her and report any questionable behavior that would disqualify her from the marriage.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Dir. Gérard Oury · With Louis de Funès, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives during WWII.
Dir. Howard Hawks · With Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan
The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war.
Dir. Jean Renoir · With Jean Renoir, Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Dir. Michael Gordon · With Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
Dir. Julien Duvivier · With Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin, Gabriel Gabrio
Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.
Dir. Claude Sautet · With Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
Dir. Philippe de Broca · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale, Jess Hahn
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Dir. Henry King · With Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious 'beast' is stalking the vicinity.
Dir. Walerian Borowczyk · With Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza
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