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Le Dindon
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Directed by Claude Barma
Written by Jacques Emmanuel
Based on Le Dindon by Georges Feydeau
Produced by Robert Dorfmann
Fred Orain
Starring Nadine Alari
Jacqueline Pierreux
Denise Provence
Cinematography Jacques Mercanton
Edited byFlorence Manier
Music by Gérard Calvi
Production
companies
Silver Films
Armor Films
Distributed by Les Films Corona
Release date
  • 21 November 1951 (1951-11-21)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Le Dindon is a 1951 French period comedy film directed by Claude Barma and starring Nadine Alari, Jacqueline Pierreux and Denise Provence. [1] [2] It is an adaptation of Georges Feydeau's 1896 play Le Dindon . [3] It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Henri Schmitt.

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In Paris during the Belle Epoque, Monsieur Pontagnac loves his wife but also has a wandering eye that gets him into trouble. This happens particularly when he becomes entangled with Lucienne Vatelin, the wife of a lawyer. A variety of other characters have various suspicions and intrigue and all gather at the same hotel with farcical results.

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References

  1. "Le DINDON (1951)". BFI. Archived from the original on April 30, 2021.
  2. Travers, James (April 3, 2015). "Review of the film Le Dindon (1951)". frenchfilms.org.
  3. Goble, Alan (September 8, 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   9783110951943 via Google Books.

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