Popularity: 2 (history)
Director: | Albert Lewin |
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Writer: | Albert Lewin, Guy de Maupassant |
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A self-serving journalist uses influential women in late-1800s Paris and denies the one who truly loves him. | |
Release Date: | Apr 25, 1947 |
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Director: | Albert Lewin |
Writer: | Albert Lewin, Guy de Maupassant |
Genres: | Drama |
Keywords | journalist, manipulation, ambition, deception, duel, high society, rogue, scoundrel, war buddies, jilted woman, manipulated woman |
Production Companies | United Artists, David L. Loew Productions |
Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
Name | Character |
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George Sanders | Georges Duroy |
Angela Lansbury | Clotilde de Marelle |
Ann Dvorak | Madeleine Forestier |
John Carradine | Charles Forestier |
Susan Douglas | Suzanne Walter |
Hugo Haas | Monsieur Walter |
Warren William | Laroche-Mathieu |
Frances Dee | Marie de Varenne |
Albert Bassermann | Jacques Rival |
Marie Wilson | Rachel Michot |
Katherine Emery | Madame Walter |
Richard Fraser | Philippe de Cantel |
John Good | Paul de Cazolles |
David Bond | |
Leonard Mudie | |
Karolyn Grimes | |
Jean Del Val | |
Olaf Hytten | |
Lumsden Hare | |
Betty Fairfax | |
C. Montague Shaw | |
Larry Steers | |
Gloria Grafton | |
Wyndham Standing | |
Jack Deery | |
John George | |
Rudy Germane | Georges' Butler (uncredited) |
Stuart Holmes | |
William H. O'Brien | |
Alexander Pollard | |
Jeffrey Sayre | |
Philip Sleeman | |
Count Stefenelli | |
Charles Trowbridge |
Name | Job |
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Albert Lewin | Director, Screenplay |
Darius Milhaud | Original Music Composer, Conductor |
Guy de Maupassant | Novel |
Robert Aldrich | Assistant Director |
Maria Matray | Choreographer |
Russell Metty | Director of Photography |
Gordon Wiles | Production Design |
Edward G. Boyle | Set Decoration |
Frank Webster | Sound Engineer |
Tom Lawless | Special Effects |
Gustaf Norin | Makeup Department Head |
Albrecht Joseph | Editor |
Frank Paul Sylos | Art Direction |
Norma Koch | Costume Design |
Robert H. Moreland | Special Effects |
Ern Westmore | Makeup Supervisor |
Rudolph Polk | Music Supervisor |
Ernst Matray | Choreographer |
Name | Title |
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David L. Loew | Producer |
Ray Heinz | Associate Producer |
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Popularity History
Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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2024 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
2024 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 3 |
2024 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
2024 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 3 |
2024 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 3 |
2024 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
2024 | 10 | 6 | 15 | 3 |
2024 | 11 | 6 | 20 | 2 |
2024 | 12 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
2025 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
2025 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
2025 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
2025 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2025 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Trending Position
George Sanders was always great as the cad, and rarely better than here. He is the seriously ambitious "Duroy" who decides that he can use woman as stepping stones to social acceptability. He's broke and jobless, but luckily encounters his war-time buddy "Forestiere" (John Carradine) who gets him jo ... b at a newspaper. Networking opportunities beckon. Initially, it's bar-fly "Rachel" (Rachel Wilson) who keeps him entertained, then he alights on the slightly more sophisticated "Clotilde" (Angela Lansbury) whom he has a genuine soft spot for, but she isn't going to get him anywhere near far enough up the greasy pole. For that he needs "Madeleine" (Ann Dvorak) and she not only opens an whole new social world, one that gets his mind set on a bit of malevolent manipulation and you just know that sooner or later his chickens are going to come home to roost. His unstinting ability too think only of himself is really quite entertainingly nauseous and somehow Sanders manages to encapsulate that selfishness and venality really quite smug and chillingly. There's the odd splash of colour in here, too, and with the ladies delivering strongly throughout - especially Lansbury but also Wilson too, this is a smartly written observation of dastardly deeds.