Main Cast: Michèle Morgan, Gérard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Brigitte Bardot, Yves Robert, Simone Valere
Release Year: 1955
Country: IT/FR
Run Time: 104 minutes
Plot
Rene Clair's Grand Maneuver was originally titled Les Grandes Manoeuvres, which should surprise no one. Gerard Phillipe plays a dashing dragoons officer, vintage 1913, who wagers his friends that he can make the next woman who enters the room fall in love with him. In strides drop-dead gorgeous Michele Morgan, and the rest writes itself. Phillipe plans a slow seduction and a quick goodbye; Morgan, need we say, is no "goodbye girl." For all its lavish sets and meticulously detailed period costumers, Grand Maneuver is at base the old American farce Sailor Beware with a French accent. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Jacques Francois - Rudolph; Lise Delamare - Jeanne; Jacques Fabbri - Armand's Batman; Pierre Dux - Colonel; Jacqueline Maillan - Juliette; Catherine Anouilh - Alice; Magali Noël - Therese; Raymond Cordy - Photographer; Oliver Hussenot - Prefect
Credit
Léon Barsacq - Art Director, Rosine Delamare - Costume Designer, René Clair - Director, Louisette Hautecoeur - Editor, Georges Van Parys - Composer (Music Score), van Georges Parys - Composer (Music Score), Robert Le Febvre - Cinematographer, Robert Juillard - Cinematographer, René Clair - Producer, René Clair - Screenwriter, Jerome Geronimi - Screenwriter, Jean Marsan - Screenwriter
