Jean Halain

Jean Halain

Total Credits at Criticker: 16 (Writer)

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    The Big Restaurant
    Top-notch french restaurant owner Monsieur Septime is involved into crime when one of his famous guests disappears. (imdb)
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    Oscar
    Bertrand (Louis De Funes) is a victim of blackmail when a man asks for his daughter's hand in marriage in this madcap comedy of errors. The suitor offers money he has embezzled in exchange for permission to wed the young woman. The trouble is that the woman is not really Bertrand's daughter but a woman who had only borrowed her name. Bertrand agrees to let Oscar the chauffeur marry the woman without revealing that she is not really his own daughter. (All Movie Guide)
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    Evans (Louis De Funes) stars in this situation comedy about a man in charge of a female ballet troupe. The only other man in the house is his nephew Philippe (Olivier De Funes). One of the former residents becomes pregnant, and anonymous note labels the nephew as the father. Evans seeks out the girl only to find she has another child as well. He soon gets roped into becoming a nursemaid to the squalling infant and the year old child. (All Movie Guide)
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    Sur un arbre perché
    French comic Louis De Funes stars as Henri, who has a very unfortunate accident while on his way to arrange some sort of shady deal on the Italian border. He has tried desperately not to let his better impulses get control of him; nonetheless, he has already picked up a hitchhiker (Olivier De Funes) and a married woman in distress (Geraldine Chaplin) when his car runs off the road, falls over a cliff, and lands in the crown of a tree. The efforts of this threesome to cope with the situation and get rescued constitute the body of this film. (All Movie Guide)
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    La Soupe aux choux
    2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup. (imdb)
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    Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida
    Louis is a hard working but crazy Paris taxi driver. Today he's finishing work for the summer holiday: his family is going to Spain with his sister-in-law and her family; they're going in the taxi and towing a caravan. The customs check at the border is pretty thorough, and the two men have some trouble smuggling. Next to them in the customs hall is a beautiful blonde, who is smuggling a priceless stolen diamond into Spain. (imdb)
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    The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo
    Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. (imdb)
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    Max and Riton, two lousy thugs, acting under the direction of Fano. After a missed break, he dismisses them before offering them to remember the biggest coup of the century : to steal funds from the pension fund of SNCF stored in a safe in the Gare de l'Est. To steal money, they imagine opening the chest through the toilets of the station. Thus, under various disguises, they manage to win the booty at the same time as full of surprises will arise during their long and audacious operation ... (Wikipédia)
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    Blood on His Sword
    Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. (imdb)
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    The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
    Maurice Martin handles firmly porter's lodge of which he holds with his wife, the amiable Germaine. Their daughter, Jacqueline, hardworking and wise, would give them any satisfaction if not a romance between her and George stood Richet, the son of the owners. They do not want any price of this marriage, nor the Martin. After a falling transient, the lovebirds disappear. Fathers erected the first one against the other, despair and mothers wail. (Wikipedia)
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    Les Quatre Charlots mousquetaires
    A version of the Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, completely revisited and perfectly burlesque, in which the Charlotts play the servants of the Musketeers in order to defeat the plans of Cardinal Richelieu, his damned soul Father Joseph and Milady de Winter, and bring back to the Queen her iron-clad diamonds, which she imprudently offered to the Duke of Buckingham.
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    A nous quatre cardinal !
    Sequel of Les 4 Charlots Mousquetaires.
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    Le Bossu
    Prince Philippe de Gonzague decides to get rid of his cousin Duke de Nevers, having wished for long his properties and wealth. (imdb)
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    Furia à Bahia pour OSS 117
    A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug. (imdb)
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    Code Name: Tiger
    Before French director Claude Chabrol was adopted by the auterists, he was a workaday craftsman turning out purely commercial products. Code Name: Tiger is an average spy-counterspy effort, starring Roger Hanin as a secret agent known as "Le Tiger". Unlike James Bond, Le Tiger is a military strategist, choosing to attack first before pondering more subtle, subversive methods. (allmovie.com)
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    Monsieur Taxi
    An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in his vehicle.
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