Word: soused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windows and peers out from behind shrubbery. As the young Faust, Gerard Philipe is a romantic figure. Director Clair describes his picture as "tragicomedy." It has neither the passion of Marlowe's and Goethe's Fausts nor the visual inventiveness of Clair's best films (Sous les Toits de Paris, A Notts La Liberte), but it is an unconventional and diverting treatment of a traditional tale...
...actor and a barman-they're brothers!" Maugin says. "Both of them live on other people's vices . . ." That is Maugin's record. At 14, he ran away from his home in the provinces with five sous in his pocket. The money was blackmail, squeezed out of a schoolboy pal whom he had caught raping his sister. Women paid his way more directly in Paris. An adoring prostitute kept him in meals and clothes; a mousy ingenue housed him (he left her pregnant); a nymphomaniac stage star married him and later took an overdose of morphine after...