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'''''This Desired Body''''' is a 1959 French film. It was also known as '''Ce corps tant désiré''' and '''The Way of the Wicked'''. |
'''''This Desired Body''''' is a 1959 French film. It was also known as '''Ce corps tant désiré''' and '''The Way of the Wicked'''. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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A young man, Guilaume, loses his job in Paris, and returns home to a seaside town, accompanied by Lina, a prostitute on the run from police. Guillaume's family, the Ferauds, runs a mussell packing factory with Henri Messardier. Henri is attracted to Lina but is unable to handle the fact she was a prostitute; he gets drunk and hits a workmate who insults her, accidentally killing him. He refuses to see Lina in prison and she marries Guillaume. Guillaume's sister Marinette adores Henri but he is unable to forget Lina. |
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Two half brothers fall for a prostitute. One marries her. Only one loves her. |
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==Cast== |
==Cast== |
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*[[Daniel Gélin]] as Guillaume Feraud |
*[[Daniel Gélin]] as Guillaume Feraud |
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Belinda Lee was cast in October 1958. She was still under contract to the Rank Organisation at the time.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety212-1958-10/page/n69/mode/2up?q=%22belinda+lee%22|title=Paris|date=1 October 1958|page=70}}</ref> |
Belinda Lee was cast in October 1958. She was still under contract to the Rank Organisation at the time.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety212-1958-10/page/n69/mode/2up?q=%22belinda+lee%22|title=Paris|date=1 October 1958|page=70}}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
==Reception== |
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''Variety'' called it "a sort of laborious version of ''[[And God Created Woman]]'' sans the snap and jolt of the latter. Result is a fairly plodding vehicle with some exploitation factors on its^theme |
''Variety'' called it "a sort of laborious version of ''[[And God Created Woman]]'' sans the snap and jolt of the latter. Result is a fairly plodding vehicle with some exploitation factors on its^theme and sex scenes. Otherwise its literary tone and unshaped characters limit this for stronger chances. abroad... Film has a good production, gloss but actors can not do much with their unclear roles. On-the-spot lensing in a little fishing village helps^."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|url=https://archive.org/details/variety215-1959-06/page/n69/mode/1up?q=%22belinda+lee%22|title= This Desired Body review|page=6|date=10 June 1959}}</ref> |
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''Monthly Film Bulletin'' called it "a laborious romantic melodrama along the lines of ''[[And God Created Woman]]'' with a mussel-picking milieu but little else in the way of surprise. The actors can do nothing with their unshaped, conventional roles and literary conception. The late Belinda Lee gives an uninhibited but sympathetic performance in a part she was to make her own, the prostitute reformed, and the production has gloss; but all in all this was one of Miss Lee's more plodding vehicles."<ref>WAY OF THE WICKED "(Ce Corps tant désiré)" |
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Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 28, Iss. 324, (Jan 1, 1961): 169. </ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 02:10, 2 August 2020
| This Desired Body | |
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| Directed by | Luis Saslavsky |
| Written by | Juliette Saint-Giniez Luis Saslavsky |
| Produced by | Simon Barstoff |
| Starring | Daniel Gelin Belinda Lee |
| Cinematography | Pierre Petit |
Production company | SB-Chaillot |
| Distributed by | Les Films Fernand Rivers (France) |
Release date | April 1959 |
Running time | 105 mins |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
This Desired Body is a 1959 French film. It was also known as Ce corps tant désiré and The Way of the Wicked.
Plot
A young man, Guilaume, loses his job in Paris, and returns home to a seaside town, accompanied by Lina, a prostitute on the run from police. Guillaume's family, the Ferauds, runs a mussell packing factory with Henri Messardier. Henri is attracted to Lina but is unable to handle the fact she was a prostitute; he gets drunk and hits a workmate who insults her, accidentally killing him. He refuses to see Lina in prison and she marries Guillaume. Guillaume's sister Marinette adores Henri but he is unable to forget Lina.
Cast
- Daniel Gélin as Guillaume Feraud
- Dany Carrel as Marinette Feraud
- Belinda Lee as Lina
- Maurice Ronet as Henri Messardier
- Jane Marken as Mme Féraud
- Antoine Balpêtré as M. Messardier
- Dominique Blanchar as La fille
- Georges Douking as Le commissaire
Production
Belinda Lee was cast in October 1958. She was still under contract to the Rank Organisation at the time.[1]
Reception
Variety called it "a sort of laborious version of And God Created Woman sans the snap and jolt of the latter. Result is a fairly plodding vehicle with some exploitation factors on its^theme and sex scenes. Otherwise its literary tone and unshaped characters limit this for stronger chances. abroad... Film has a good production, gloss but actors can not do much with their unclear roles. On-the-spot lensing in a little fishing village helps^."[2]
Monthly Film Bulletin called it "a laborious romantic melodrama along the lines of And God Created Woman with a mussel-picking milieu but little else in the way of surprise. The actors can do nothing with their unshaped, conventional roles and literary conception. The late Belinda Lee gives an uninhibited but sympathetic performance in a part she was to make her own, the prostitute reformed, and the production has gloss; but all in all this was one of Miss Lee's more plodding vehicles."[3]
References
- ^ "Paris". Variety. 1 October 1958. p. 70.
- ^ "This Desired Body review". Variety. 10 June 1959. p. 6.
- ^ WAY OF THE WICKED "(Ce Corps tant désiré)" Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 28, Iss. 324, (Jan 1, 1961): 169.
External links
- This Desired Body at Letterbox DVD
- This Desired Body at IMDB
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