La Bandera is an episodic film of 1935 directed by Julien Duvivier which was based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. It typifies the genre of a Foreign Legion tale.
The film introduced the French actor Jean Gabin. (That is not correct. Apparently, this is his earliest large role.)
Gabin plays Pierre Gilieth, a Frenchman who early one morning in Paris is taking his drunken girlfriend Jacqueline, played by Claude May, down the street when a man comes...
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La Bandera is an episodic film of 1935 directed by Julien Duvivier which was based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. It typifies the genre of a Foreign Legion tale.
The film introduced the French actor Jean Gabin. (That is not correct. Apparently, this is his earliest large role.)
Gabin plays Pierre Gilieth, a Frenchman who early one morning in Paris is taking his drunken girlfriend Jacqueline, played by Claude May, down the street when a man comes out of the shadows and stabs her. "It's blood!" she says, and as she collapses the camera pans upward to the street sign which reads "Rue St-Vincent". The film cuts to his peering through Venetian blinds in Barcelona. A fat detective follows him around town, and his pocket gets picked by fellow Frenchmen.
Now at the end of his resources, having been rejected as a sailor on a merchant ship, he decides join the Spanish Foreign Legion on seeing a placard. The story is just before the Spanish Civil War, as the top of the placard reads "Spanish...
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