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A Scandal in Paris is a american film of genre Drama directed by Douglas Sirk released in USA on 19 july 1946 with George Sanders
A Scandal in Paris (1946)
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Add to a movie listA Scandal in Paris is a 1946 American biographical film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring George Sanders, Signe Hasso and Carole Landis. It loosely depicts the life of Eugène François Vidocq, a French criminal who reformed and became a famous French Prefect of Police during the Napoleonic era.
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The rogue (George Sanders) who would later call himself Eugène François Vidocq is born in a prison cell, the twelfth child of a woman who steals a loaf of bread each time she needs shelter to give birth. As the boy grows into a man, he is constantly in and out of jail. As the story begins, he and his cutpurse cellmate and associate, Emile Vernet (Akim Tamiroff), escape using a file hidden in a birthday cake provided by Vernet's aunt Ernestine.Actors
George Sanders
(Eugéne François Vidocq)
Signe Hasso
(Therese De Pierremont)
Carole Landis
(Loretta de Richet)
Akim Tamiroff
(Emile Vernet)
Gene Lockhart
(Prefect of Police Richet)
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