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'''Les Dragueurs''' is a 1959 French [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Jean-Pierre Mocky]]. British actor [[Belinda Lee]] plays a role.
'''Les Dragueurs''' is a 1959 French [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] directed by [[Jean-Pierre Mocky]]. British actor [[Belinda Lee]] plays a role.


It was also known as '''The Chasers''' or '''The Girl Hunters'''.
It was also known as '''The Chasers''' (US title) or '''The Girl Hunters''' or '''The Young Have No Morals'''.
==Premise===
==Premise===
Two young men, Freddy and Joseph, go out looking for girls one nigh, hoping to find the right girl. They go through a number of different experiences and encounters. One finds a girl he might have feelings for, the other goes off to easy conquests.
Two young men, Freddy and Joseph, go out looking for girls one nigh, hoping to find the right girl. They go through a number of different experiences and encounters. Among the women they meet: Denise, who is married, but looking for romance; Sylviane, who clings to old dreams and boyfriends; Dadou, Sylviane's harsh roommate; Ghislaine; a disillusioned hard partier; a bobby soxer; Jeanne, a cripple.
== Cast ==
== Cast ==
* [[Jacques Charrier]] as Freddy
* [[Jacques Charrier]] as Freddy
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* [[Gérard Darrieu]] as Un ami de Freddy
* [[Gérard Darrieu]] as Un ami de Freddy
==Reception==
==Reception==
''Variety'' said the director "has filled this with some fairly acute observation on pickups and Paris nightlife, with a wild party also thrown in. It is sometimes sketchy and one-track but has exploitation handles on its looksee of Paris at night." The reviewer added that he feltthe two leads "give body to the roles of the two searchers. The women remain facets of the female pysche. However, they are all lookers and dress up the pic. Technical credits and production values are fine, with on-the-spot lensing a help. This is an offbeater with possibilities for offshore specialized programs.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|last=Mosk|url=https://archive.org/details/variety214-1959-04/page/n175/mode/1up?q=%22belinda+lee%22 |title=Les Drageurs|date=24 April 1959|page=15</ref>
''Variety'' said the director "has filled this with some fairly acute observation on pickups and Paris nightlife, with a wild party also thrown in. It is sometimes sketchy and one-track but has exploitation handles on its looksee of Paris at night." The reviewer added that he felt the two leads "give body to the roles of the two searchers. The women remain facets of the female pysche. However, they are all lookers and dress up the pic. Technical credits and production values are fine, with on-the-spot lensing a help. This is an offbeater with possibilities for offshore specialized programs.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|last=Mosk|url=https://archive.org/details/variety214-1959-04/page/n175/mode/1up?q=%22belinda+lee%22 |title=Les Drageurs|date=24 April 1959|page=15</ref>

The film was released in the US as ''The Chasers''. The ''New York Times'' called it "a bittersweet, faintly tragic and sardonic romantic drama. However, as inventive, striking fare it is, basically, just another ripple in the veritable inundation of 'new wave' of features turned out by France's youthful filmmakers."<ref>Screen: Rootless French: ' The Chasers' Opens at the Little Carnegie
By A. H. WEILER. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]03 May 1960: 43. </ref>

The ''Monthly Film Bulletin'' said it "had its points of interest."<ref>YOUNG HAVE NO MORALS, The "(Les Dragueurs)"
Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 28, Iss. 324, (Jan 1, 1961): 42. </ref>
==References==
==References==
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Revision as of 11:30, 8 August 2020

Les Dragueurs
Directed byJean-Pierre Mocky
Written byJean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Charles Pichon
Louis Sapin
StarringJacques Charrier
Charles Aznavour
CinematographyEdmond Sechan
Production
company
Lisbon Films
Distributed byFernand Rivers
Release dates
  • 29 April 1959 (1959-04-29)
(France)
May 1960 (US)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Les Dragueurs is a 1959 French drama film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky. British actor Belinda Lee plays a role.

It was also known as The Chasers (US title) or The Girl Hunters or The Young Have No Morals.

Premise=

Two young men, Freddy and Joseph, go out looking for girls one nigh, hoping to find the right girl. They go through a number of different experiences and encounters. Among the women they meet: Denise, who is married, but looking for romance; Sylviane, who clings to old dreams and boyfriends; Dadou, Sylviane's harsh roommate; Ghislaine; a disillusioned hard partier; a bobby soxer; Jeanne, a cripple.

Cast

Reception

Variety said the director "has filled this with some fairly acute observation on pickups and Paris nightlife, with a wild party also thrown in. It is sometimes sketchy and one-track but has exploitation handles on its looksee of Paris at night." The reviewer added that he felt the two leads "give body to the roles of the two searchers. The women remain facets of the female pysche. However, they are all lookers and dress up the pic. Technical credits and production values are fine, with on-the-spot lensing a help. This is an offbeater with possibilities for offshore specialized programs.[1]

The film was released in the US as The Chasers. The New York Times called it "a bittersweet, faintly tragic and sardonic romantic drama. However, as inventive, striking fare it is, basically, just another ripple in the veritable inundation of 'new wave' of features turned out by France's youthful filmmakers."[2]

The Monthly Film Bulletin said it "had its points of interest."[3]

References

  1. ^ {{cite magazine|magazine=Variety|last=Mosk|url=https://archive.org/details/variety214-1959-04/page/n175/mode/1up?q=%22belinda+lee%22 |title=Les Drageurs|date=24 April 1959|page=15
  2. ^ Screen: Rootless French: ' The Chasers' Opens at the Little Carnegie By A. H. WEILER. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]03 May 1960: 43.
  3. ^ YOUNG HAVE NO MORALS, The "(Les Dragueurs)" Monthly Film Bulletin; London Vol. 28, Iss. 324, (Jan 1, 1961): 42.
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