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The Two Schemers

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The Two Schemers
Directed byJacques Houssin
Written byPierre Maudru
Paul Schiller
Produced byGeorges Milton
Louis Gondry
StarringGeorges Milton
Jules Berry
Josseline Gaël
CinematographyFred Langenfeld
Music byAndré Hornez
Casimir Oberfeld
Production
company
Les Productions Parisiennes
Distributed byLes Films Georges Muller
Release date
  • 24 February 1938 (1938-02-24)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Two Schemers (French: Les deux combinards) is a 1938 French comedy film directed by Jacques Houssin and starring Georges Milton, Jules Berry and Josseline Gaël.[1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert-Jules Garnier.

Synopsis

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A shady businessman hires another much poorer man to pretend to be him in order to fulfil his military service as a reservist. A series of misunderstandings eventually lead to the speculator losing all his money while the other becomes a millionaire.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.208
  2. ^ Rège p.509

Bibliography

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  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1935-1939. Pygmalion, 1986.
  • Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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