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The Grand Manoeuvre is a french film of genre Drama directed by René Clair released in USA on 1 october 1956 with Michèle Morgan
The Grand Manoeuvre (1955)
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Add to a movie listThe Grand Maneuver (French: Les Grandes Manœuvres) is a 1955 French drama film written and directed by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Summer Manoeuvres, and in the United States under the title The Grand Maneuver. It is a romantic comedy-drama set in a French provincial town just before World War I, and it was René Clair's first film to be made in colour.
Synopsis
Armand de la Verne, a lieutenant in the French cavalry and a notorious seducer, undertakes a bet that he will "obtain the favours" of a woman selected secretly by lot, before his company departs for its summer manoeuvres in a month's time. His target turns out to be Marie-Louise Rivière, a Parisian divorcée who runs a milliner's shop, and who is also being courted by the serious and respectable Victor Duverger. Marie Louise's growing attraction towards Armand is tempered by her discoveries about his reputation, while Armand's calculated strategy become undermined by his genuine emotions. A subplot follows the parallel but simpler courtship of Armand's friend and fellow officer Félix and Lucie, the young daughter of a photographer.Actors
Michèle Morgan
(Marie-Louise Rivière)
Gérard Philipe
(Lieutenant Armand de la Verne)
Jean Desailly
(Victor Duverger)
Yves Robert
(Felix Leroy, lieutenant of the Dragoons)
Pierre Dux
(Colonel)
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