The White Truck
1943 French film
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French | Le camion blanc |
Directed by | Léo Joannon |
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Produced by | Léo Joannon |
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Cinematography | Nikolai Toporkoff |
Edited by | Jacques Grassi |
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Production company | MAIC |
Distributed by | Regina Distribution |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
The White Truck (French: Le camion blanc) is a 1943 French comedy drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Jules Berry, Blanchette Brunoy and François Périer.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou.
Plot
A young garage mechanic is hired for an unusual assignment, to drive a white truck around France carrying the corpse of a famed gypsy leader.
Cast
- Jules Berry as Shabbas - the chief of the northern gypsies
- Blanchette Brunoy as Germaine
- François Périer as François Ledru - a young mechanic
- Fernand Charpin as Courbassié - gypsies' southern ambassador
- Marguerite Moreno as The King's Widow
- Roger Karl as Acho
- Mila Parély as Madame Dupont
- Jean Parédès as Ernest
- Marcelle Monthil as Germaine's mother
- Charles Lemontier as Germaine's father
- Edmond Beauchamp as gypsy
- Robert Berri as pump attendant
- Georges Bever as ticket inspector
References
- ^ Parish, James Robert; Canham, Kingsley (1976). Film Directors Guide: Western Europe. Scarecrow Press. p. 56. ISBN 0810809087.
External links
- The White Truck at IMDb
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Films directed by Léo Joannon
- Farewell, friends (1931)
- The Voice of Happiness (1931)
- Durand contre Durand (1931)
- Il a été perdu une mariée (1932)
- Suzanne (1932)
- 600,000 Francs a Month (1933)
- We Found a Naked Woman (1934)
- Bibi-la-Purée (1935)
- Le Bouif chez les pur-sang (1935)
- Quelle drôle de gosse! (1935)
- Les conquêtes de César (1935)
- Excursion Train (1936)
- Klokslag Twaalf (1936)
- When Midnight Strikes (1936)
- Confessions of a Newlywed (1937)
- L'homme sans coeur (1937)
- De Man Zonder Hart (1937)
- Le chanteur de minuit (1937)
- Alert in the Mediterranean (1938)
- The Emigrant (1940)
- Caprices (1942)
- The White Truck (1943)
- Lucrèce (1943)
- Children of Chaos (1944)
- Secret Documents (1945)
- Le 84 prend des vacances (1950)
- Atoll K (1951)
- Drôle de noce (1952)
- The Unfrocked One (1954)
- Secret of Sister Angela (1956)
- The Man with the Golden Keys (1956)
- The Desert of Pigalle (1958)
- So Much Love Lost (1958)
- Assassin in the Phonebook (1962)
- Fort du Fou (1963)
- Three Disordered Children (1966)
- The Arnauds (1967)
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