Word: lopert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fanfan the Tulip (Lopert). A French folk tale dressed up as hard-swaggering farce; with Gerard Philipe, Gina Lollobrigida (TIME...
...Captain's Paradise (Lopert). Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who has a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...
Gilbert & Sullivan (London Films, Lopert) is a thoroughgoing stomp through the old Savoy. Though it is well known that one Gilbert & Sullivan opera is more than most companies can produce successfully, the British team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat (State Secret) have undertaken to produce almost all of them-and all at once, in this two-hour film-and to tell the life stories of Gilbert & Sullivan at the same time...
...Captain's Paradise (London Films; Lopert) is a wonderfully funny little immorality play about how the Old Adam tries once again to have his apple and eat it too. The Adam in this instance is a middle-class Englishman who looks as safe as porridge-until the moviegoer looks again and sees that the part is being played by Alec Guinness, who, in recent films (Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Promoter), has been hilariously demonstrating that the dullest-seeming people may be the most fascinating monsters...
Fanfan the Tulip (Filmsonor; Lopert Films) is a legendary French hero who, to judge from this picture, was a sort of combination Robin Hood and Roy Rogers. During the reign of Louis XV, Fanfan (Gérard Philipe) has enough romantic adventures for a couple of action movies: he makes love to the king's pretty daughter and to the voluptuous daughter of a recruiting sergeant, rescues the Marquise de Pompadour from highway robbers, escapes from the hangman's noose by the skin of his profile, brings about the surrender of France's enemies on the battle...