The Grand Maneuver
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Directed by	René Clair
Produced by	René Clair André Daven
Written by	René Clair Jérôme Géronimi (adaptation) Jean Marsan (adaptation)
Starring	Michèle Morgan Gérard Philipe
Music by	Georges Van Parys
Cinematography	Robert Lefebvre
Editing by	Louisette Hautecoeur Denise Natot
Distributed by	Cinédis (France) UMPO (US)
Release date(s)	October 25, 1955
Running time	106 minutes
Country	France / Italy
Language	French

The Grand Maneuver (French: Les Grandes Manœuvres) is a 1955 romantic drama film directed and written by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe.^[1] In 1974, the film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

[edit] Cast

• Michèle Morgan as Marie-Louise Rivière
• Gérard Philipe as Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne
• Jean Desailly as Victor Duverger
• Pierre Dux as Le Colonel
• Jacques Fabbri as L'ordonnance d'Armand
• Jacques François as Rodolphe
• Yves Robert as Le Lieutenant Félix Leroy
• Brigitte Bardot as Lucie
• Lise Delamare as Juliette Duverger
• Jacqueline Maillan as Jeanne Duverger, une soeur de Victor
• Magali Noël as Thérèse, la chanteuse (as Magali Noel)
• Simone Valère as Gisèle Monnet (as Simone Valere)
• Catherine Anouilh as Alice, la fille du préfet
• Madeleine Barbulée as La dame au chapeau jaune
• Dany Carrel as Rose-Mousse

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• The Grand Maneuver at the Internet Movie Database
• The Grand Maneuver at Allmovie
• Les Grandes Manœuvres at Films de France

v • d • e René Clair Feature films Le Fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (1925) • Le Voyage imaginaire (1926) • La Proie du vent (1927) • Un chapeau de paille d'Italie (1928) • Les Deux timides (1928) • Sous les toits de Paris (1930) • Le Million (1931) • À nous la liberté (1931) • Quatorze Juillet (1932) • The Ghost Goes West (1935) • Break The News (1938) • The Flame of New Orleans (1941) • I Married a Witch (1942) • It Happened Tomorrow (1944) • And Then There Were None (1945) • Le Silence est d'or (1947) • La Beauté du diable (1950) • Les Belles de nuit (1952) • Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955) • Porte des Lilas (1957) • Tout l'or du monde (1961) • Les Fêtes galantes (1965) Short films Entr'acte (1924) • Paris qui dort (1924, a/k/a The Crazy Ray) • La Tour (1928) • Forever and a Day (1943, segment "1897") • La Française et l'amour (1960, segment "Le Mariage") • Les Quatre vérités (1962, segment "Les Deux Pigeons") Television Les Fables de La Fontaine (1949, episode "?")

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