Les Femmes collantes | |
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Directed by | Pierre Caron |
Written by | Jean de Letraz |
Based on | Les Femmes collantes, operetta by Léon Gandillot |
Produced by | Pierre Caron Serge Sandberg |
Starring | [1] |
Cinematography | Willy Faktorovitch (as Willy) |
Edited by | Jean Bert |
Music by | Vincent Scotto |
Production companies | Les Films SACA Société de Production du Film Les Femmes Collantes |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes (5,700 s) |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Les Femmes collantes is a French film released in 1938, directed by Pierre Caron. [2] It is based on the 1886 opéra bouffe of the same name by Léon Gandillot, and was preceded by a 1920 film written by Gandillot and directed by Georges Monca with Charles Prince. [3] [4] [5]
Jacques Badinois is a wealthy lawyer with three women bent on marrying him: his mistress, a young widow, and his maid. He and his clerk's intended fiancée then fall in love. He gives all four women the same date and time for their wedding, and marries her. [1] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Les Femmes collantes opened in Paris on 27 April 1938. [2] It was re-released on video in 2015 by René Chateau Vidéo. [8]
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