The Corsican Brothers (1939 film)

1939 film

The Corsican Brothers

Directed by	Géo Kelber Robert Siodmak
Written by	Alexandre Arnoux Gilles Dartevelle Léo Lania
Based on	The Corsican Brothers by Alexandre Dumas
Produced by	Michel Rubinstein Michel Zelitch
Starring	Jean Aquistapace Pierre Brasseur Lucienne Le Marchand
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon Georges C. Stilly
Music by	Henri Tomasi
Production company	Distribution Européenne
Distributed by	Distribution Européenne
Release date	3 May 1939 (1939-05-03)
Running time	81 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Corsican Brothers (French: Frères corses) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Géo Kelber and Robert Siodmak and starring Jean Aquistapace, Pierre Brasseur and Lucienne Le Marchand. It is loosely inspired by the novella of the same title by Alexandre Dumas. Siodmak supervised the production and shot much of the location work in Corsica.

Synopsis

The attractive Parisian Gina marries an older Corsican forester, causing turmoil to his twin sons who are both on the receiving end of her advances.

Cast

Jean Aquistapace as Bruno Ferrazi
Pierre Brasseur as Tonio
Paul Azaïs as André, le mauvais garçon
Lucienne Le Marchand as Gina
Ruth Pally as Maria
Jean Brochard as Le gendarme
Bruno Clair as Lorenzo
Jacqueline Daix as Laeticia
Jacques Erwin as Angelo
Lucien Gallas as Jérôme, le contrebandier
Zaïa Jollson as Nina
Raymond Rognoni as Le curé

References

Bessy & Chirat p.304
"Frères corses de Géo Kelber, Robert Siodmak (1938) - Unifrance".

Bibliography

Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2. Pygmalion, 1986.
Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
Greco, Joseph. The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951. Universal-Publishers, 1999.
Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

The Corsican Brothers at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)

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