Name: Volpone
Director: Maurice Tourneur
Released: 1941
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Cast: Fernand Ledoux, Jacqueline Delubac, Louis Jouvet, Harry Baur

Fernand Ledoux

Jacqueline Delubac

Louis Jouvet

Harry Baur

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.

Réalisme poétique français

Volpone

FR - HD 

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Jean Marais

Delphine Seyrig

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Sacha Pitoëff

Henri Crémieux

Patrick Préjean

 Coluche

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Louise Chevalier

Annie Savarin

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Catherine Deneuve

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french - SME

Français

VF - HD

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Jean Debucourt

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Betty Daussmond

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White Paws

VF - SD

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Jean Dasté

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Michèle Morgan

Charles Blavette

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Nane Germon

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Deutsch

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Jenny Hélia

Jacques Berlioz

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Marcel Pérès

René Génin

Robert Le Vigan

Louis Seigner

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Arthur Devère

Guy Favières

Marcelle Hainia

Pierre Labry

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Rosine Deréan

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 Fréhel

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Good Luck

FR - SD

Saturnin Fabre

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Shavian social satire. Odette is an actress who&#x27;s now the mistress of a government minister. Her household of cook, maid, and chauffeur needs a valet. On the eve of going with the minister to Deauville, she engages D&eacute;sir&eacute;, a robust and talkative man, even through his most recent employer, a countess, intimates improprieties. Things go well for a short time: the wealthy talk about the servants, the servants talk about their employers. Then, D&eacute;sir&eacute; has explicit dreams about Odette; his outbursts wake the maid in the next room nightly. Odette has the same dream each night, awaking the minister and his jealousy. Is there any decorous way to handle these subconscious attractions?

Désiré

english

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Raimu

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Faisons un rêve...

Robert Dalban

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Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Raymond Bussières

Simone Renant

Charles Dullin

Claudine Dupuis

Gilberte Geniat

Bernard Blier

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Gabrielle Dorziat

Odette Talazac

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 Sylvie

François Périer

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Madeleine Ozeray

 Raymone

Charles Granval

Gaby Andreu

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Henri Guisol

Pierre Alcover

Jean-Pierre Aumont

Françoise Rosay

Nadine Vogel

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