Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955)
Directed by René Clair
Genres - Comedy, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Romantic Drama, Period Film |
Run Time - 106 min. |
Countries - France, Italy |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan, and the rest writes itself. Phillipe plans a slow seduction and a quick goodbye; Morgan, need we say, is no "goodbye girl." For all its lavish sets and meticulously detailed period costumers, Grand Maneuver is at base the old American farce Sailor Beware with a French accent.
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love, officer, romance, wager