Word: montand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Yves Montand comes on strong as a sardonic, Gallic Bogart in this lively little French farce directed with wry mockery by Philippe de Broca...
...DEVIL BY THE TAIL. Yves Montand comes on as a sardonic, Gallic Bogart in this lively little French farce directed with wry mockery by Philippe de Broca...
...daughter and granddaughter-she will turn the place into a bordello. As Baudelaire wrote and the picture illustrates, "Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with the desire to change his bed." In a sudden deluge of customers, the most libidinous patient is Cesar (Yves Montand), a glib, jittery professional thief. The ladies of the house conspire to render unto themselves what is Cesar's-a million stolen francs-with a genteel little murder. But under the international law that protects farceurs, Cesar not only escapes with his life but also with the affection...
...years, Montand has been living two lives. Onstage he is a singer of romantic ballads and risque street songs. Onscreen, in such films as La Guerre Est Finie and Live for Life, he is as grim and bitter as Humphrey Bogart. In The Devil by the Tail, he takes his stage personality out of the trunk and refurbishes it with a series of warm interludes and witty tongue-in-cheek pantomimes. As the marquise's daughter, Maria Schell also alters her usually grim image with a comically erotic performance and an exuberantly uplifted bosom...
...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Yves Montand and the Dirk Sanders Ballet in an hour of song and dance. Repeat...