The best Gaston Mauger’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Gaston Mauger’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Gaston Mauger.
Le Bonheur
7/10
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.
Departure
5.3/10
An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.
Hanged Man's Farm
6.7/10
Directed by Jean Dréville.
Le mort en fuite
6.6/10
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to kill Trignol, who will temporarily disappear then reappear, as if by magic, during the trial. But things don't go according to plan.
Pas si bête
5.6/10
À mi-chemin du ciel
Accused, Stand Up!
5.7/10
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
Le Collier de la reine
The Man in the Hispano-Suiza
6.2/10
The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George becomes the lover of Lady Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.
