The Bed (film)
1954 anthology film
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French | Secrets d’alcôve |
Production companies | Cormoran Films Industrie Cinematografiche Sociali Terra Film Produktion |
Distributed by | Terrafilm Getz-Kingsley |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
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Language | French |
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Secrets d’alcôve is a 1954 French comedy film made up of four sketches by Henri Decoin (segment "Le billet de logement"), Jean Delannoy ("Le lit de la Pompadour"), Gianni Franciolini ("Le divorce") and Ralph Habib ("Riviera-Express").[1] Kingsley International released the film in the UK.
Cast by segment
- "Le Billet de logement" features Jeanne Moreau and Richard Todd.[2]
- "Le Lit de la Pompadour" with Martine Carol, François Périer and Bernard Blier
- "Le Divorce" with Dawn Addams and Vittorio De Sica
- "Riviera-Express" with Françoise Arnoul and Marcel Mouloudji
Plot
The story brings with four travellers forced by weather to find temporary shelter who tell four stories, whose common point is a bed.
- "The lodging slip" - During the war, an English officer captain Davidson comes to the house of Jeanne Plisson with a requisition slip for accommodation. Her husband is absent at the front while she is pregnant. During the night, she gives birth and Davidson must act as midwife.
- "The Divorce" - Roberto, an American living in New York wants to divorce. He shares the night at a hotel with Janet.
- "Riviera Express" - truck driver Riquet meets Martine whose car has broken down.
- "The bed of Pompadour" - a bed is mis-delivered to Agnes
References
- ^ original French poster
- ^ Marianne Gray - La Moreau: A Biography of Jeanne Moreau - 1996 Page 30 As soon as Moreau wrapped on that film she went into two more for Decoin. The first was a melodrama made in 1953 by four different directors, each on a twenty-minute 'bed' theme, called Secrets d' Alcove (Secrets of the Bedroom). She played a pregnant woman in the episode .., with Richard Todd. Todd remembers the film, made when he was a keen young British leading man who had worked in a couple of French films after spending much of his war service ...
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The films of Henri Decoin
- The Oil Sharks (1933)
- Toboggan (1934)
- The Green Domino (1935)
- Mademoiselle ma mère (1936)
- Abused Confidence (1938)
- Return at Dawn (1938)
- Beating Heart (1940)
- Premier rendez-vous (1941)
- The Strangers in the House (1942)
- The Benefactor (1942)
- Love Marriage (1942)
- The Man from London (1943)
- I Am with You (1943)
- The Devil's Daughter (1946)
- The Lovers of Pont Saint Jean (1947)
- Clockface Café (1947)
- Not Guilty (1947)
- Monelle (1948)
- Between Eleven and Midnight (1949)
- At the Grand Balcony (1949)
- Three Telegrams (1950)
- Clara de Montargis (1951)
- La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (1952)
- Love and Desire (1952)
- Lovers of Toledo (1953)
- Dortoir des grandes (1953)
- Les Intrigantes (1954)
- The Bed (1954)
- One Step to Eternity (1954)
- The Affair of the Poisons (1955)
- Razzia sur la chnouf (1955)
- Folies-Bergère (1957)
- Burning Fuse (1957)
- Charming Boys (1957)
- Anyone Can Kill Me (1957)
- The Cat (1958)
- Too Late to Love (1959)
- Nathalie, Secret Agent (1959)
- The Cat Shows Her Claws (1960)
- The Pavements of Paris (1961)
- Le Masque de fer (1962)
- Where the Truth Lies (1962)
- Casablanca, Nest of Spies (1963)
- Nick Carter va tout casser (1964)
- Les Parias de la gloire (1964)
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