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Coral Reefs is a french film of genre Drama directed by Pierre Prévert with Jean Gabin
Coral Reefs (1939)
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Add to a movie listCoral Reefs (French title: Le Récif de corail) is a 1938 French language motion picture adventure drama directed by Maurice Gleize. The screenplay was written by Charles Spaak, based on novel by Jean Martet. The film stars Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Renoir and Gina Manès.
It tells the story of a charged innocent Mexican sailor who escapes to a lagoon in the Pacific Ocean. He meets with a lonely girl in the woods, having an affair. However his current gunrunning operation is noticed by an earnest detective.
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In the atmosphere fascinating of the southern continent, all their strengths fight in the seas of the south full of poetry and mystery, Trott and Lilian, wreckages tracked by the police, to win the coral reef, synonymous for them of quietude and new life.Actors
Jean Gabin
(Ted "Trott" Lennard)
Michèle Morgan
(Lilian White)
Pierre Renoir
(Abboy)
Saturnin Fabre
(Hobson)
Gina Manès
(Maria)
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