André Alerme – MRQE

Balthazar

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Following a slight accident, a stranger appears in a Provençal village and knocks at the door of the Philippes’villa, asking them for help. Albert Philippe is suspicious but his wife shows some interest in the man. After leaving the Philippe family, the unknown man goes to the village, meets the mayor and buys an island opposite the Philippe villa. It suddenly appears that the mysterious fellow is none other than Balthazar Lemonnier, a well-known millionaire. No sooner is the news disclosed than everybody, including the initially distrustful Mr. Philippe, wants to become his friend.

Paradis perdu

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker’s assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter’s happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

Mam’zelle Nitouche

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman’s lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior’s brother… To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before…!

Pour une nuit d’amour

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.

Lettres d’amour

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefects wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a towns class tensions.

L’homme qui cherche la vérité

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean’s sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.

Le Drame de Shanghaï

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, “The Black Dragon”. Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother’s past. When Ivan, who is also Vera’s father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back…

Le Disque 413

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as “Symphonie D’Amour” in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.