The Great Game (1934)

  • NR
  • 05/02/1934 (FR)
  • Drama
  • 1h 50m

Overview

Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.

Jacques Feyder

Director, Screenplay

Charles Spaak

Screenplay

Cast

Marie Bell's headshot

Marie Bell

Florence / Irma
Pierre Richard-Willm's headshot

Pierre Richard-Willm

Pierre Martel / Pierre Muller
Charles Vanel's headshot

Charles Vanel

Clement
Georges Pitoeff's headshot

Georges Pitoeff

Nicolas Ivanoff
Camille Bert's headshot

Camille Bert

Le colonel
André Dubosc's headshot

André Dubosc

Bernard Martel
Pierre Larquey's headshot

Pierre Larquey

Gustin
Lyne Clevers's headshot

Lyne Clevers

La môme Dauville

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