Flesh and the Woman

Flesh and the Woman
Flesh and the Woman
	Film poster
Directed by	Robert Siodmak
Written by	Jacques Feyder; Charles Spaak
Produced by	André Paulvé ; Angelo Rizzoli ; Michel Safra
Starring	Gina Lollobrigida
Cinematography	Michel Kelber
Edited by	Victoria Mercanton
Music by	Maurice Thiriet ; Georges Van Parys
Distributed by	Cinédis
Release date	12 April 1954;
Running time	100 minutes
Countries	France; Italy
Language	French

Flesh and the Woman (French: Le Grand Jeu) is a 1954 French-Italian drama film directed by Robert Siodmak.^[1] It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] It was released in the USA under the title Flesh and the Woman, and in the UK as The Card of Fate. It is a remake of the 1934 film Le Grand Jeu.

Plot

After an affair with a young woman named Sylvia the Frenchman Pierre Martel leaves Paris and goes to Algeria because he wants to start over. His wife refuses to follow him. Dismayed about all this he decides to join the French Foreign Legion. As a soldier he runs into a look-alike of Sylvia.

Cast

Gina Lollobrigida as Sylvia Sorrego / Helena Ricci
Jean-Claude Pascal as Pierre Martel
Arletty as Blanche
Raymond Pellegrin as Mario
Peter van Eyck as Fred
Jean Témerson as Xavier Noblet
Jean Hébey as Brigadier
Paul Amiot as the capitain
Odette Barencey as Gertrude
Charles Bayard
Gérard Buhr as a legionnaire
Jo Dest as the bistro keeper
Leila Farida as Aïcha
Gabrielle Fontan as the sister
Lila Kedrova as Rose
Odette Laure as Mario's girl-friend
Darling Légitimus
Margo Lion as the cleaner
Alix Mahieux as Mado
Umberto Melnati
Bernard Musson as the painter
Marcel Rouzé as the receptionist
Roger Vincent as the hotel keeper
Georges Vitray

References

^ "Grand Jeu (Le)". unifrance.org. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Flesh and the Woman". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2009.

External links

Flesh and the Woman at IMDb

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[1] "Grand Jeu (Le)". unifrance.org. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[festival-cannes.com-2] "Festival de Cannes: Flesh and the Woman". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2009.

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v t e Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Europe 1930–1939	People on Sunday (1930) Farewell (1930) Inquest (1931) About an Inquest (1931, MLV) The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931) Storms of Passion (1932) Quick (1932) The Burning Secret (1933) The Weaker Sex (1933) The Crisis is Over (1934) La Vie parisienne (1936) Parisian Life (1936) The Great Refrain (1936) Compliments of Mister Flow (1936) White Cargo (1937) Mollenard (1938) The Corsican Brothers (1939) Personal Column (1939)
Hollywood 1941–1951	West Point Widow (1941) Fly-by-Night (1942) The Night Before the Divorce (1942) My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) Someone to Remember (1943) Son of Dracula (1943) Phantom Lady (1944) Cobra Woman (1944) Christmas Holiday (1944) The Suspect (1944) The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) The Spiral Staircase (1946) The Killers (1946) The Dark Mirror (1946) Time Out of Mind (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Criss Cross (1949) The Great Sinner (1949) The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) Deported (1950) The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
Europe 1952–1969	The Crimson Pirate (1952) Flesh and the Woman (1954) Die Ratten (1955) My Father, the Actor (1956) The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) Dorothea Angermann (1959) Magnificent Sinner (1959) The Rough and the Smooth (1959) My Schoolfriend (1960) The Nina B. Affair (1961) Escape from East Berlin (1962) The Shoot (1964) The Treasure of the Aztecs (1965) The Pyramid of the Sun God (1965) Custer of the West (1967) Kampf um Rom (1968)