#Charles Vanel

[esqueletosgays]

LES DIABOLIQUES (1955)

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Cinematography: Armand Thirard

#les diaboliques #diabolique #henri georges clouzot #simone signoret #véra clouzot #paul meurisse #charles vanel #50s #50s movies #50s aesthetic #50s thrillers #french movies #french cinema #noir #noir movies #horror #horror movies #cinematography #movie screencaps #movie frames #movie screenshots #film frames #film screenshots #film screencaps #screencaps #screenshots

[pureanonofficial]

LES MIS LETTERS IN ADAPTATION - Fantine Happy, LM 1.8.2 ( Les Miserables 1934)

He had released Fantine’s hand. He listened to her words as one listens to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind absorbed in reflection which had no bottom. All at once she ceased speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine had become terrible.

She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, which had been radiant but a moment before, was ghastly, and she seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something alarming at the other extremity of the room.

“Good God!” he exclaimed; “what ails you, Fantine?”

She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other made him a sign to look behind him.

He turned, and beheld Javert.

#Les Mis #Les Miserables #les Mis 1934 #Les Miserables 1934 #Les Mis Letters #Les Mis Letters in Adaptation #Jean Valjean #Fantine #Valjean #Javert #Harry Baur #Florelle #Charles Vanel #lesmisedit #lesmiserablesedit #lesmiserables1934edit #filmedit #pureanonedits #1934 is really growing on me whenever I gif it #I'm noticing so many little good details

[bonojour]

HARRY BAUR & CHARLES VANEL in les misérables (1934)

#charles vanel #harry baur #valvert #les miserables 1934 #lesmisedit #les miserables #gilles gifs #they might be in my top 3 valjean/javert combos #i love them #and vanel javert is... [clutches chest]

[graceandfamily]

Grace Kelly with France's legendary actor, Charles Vanel (1892-1989), who has made over 200 films. Photo by Edward Quinn.

#grace kelly #charles vanel #to catch a thief #edward quinn #1954

[watcher-in-the-woods]

Diabolique (Les Diaboliques, 1955)

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot Written by Jérôme Géronimi and Henri-Georges Clouzot

Based on She Who Was no More, by Boileau-Narcejac

#les diaboliques #diabolique #henri-georges clouzot #boileau-narcejac #simone signoret #véra clouzot #paul meurisse #charles vanel #psychological horror #horror #horror movie #horror fans #horror films

[smokygluvs]

Charles-Marie Vanel - 1892-1989

Charles Vanel was a stalwart of French cinema for over three quarters of a century.

I first came across him in Le Salaire de la Peur (1953). Although he did not have the leading role, in my view he steals the film,

He also played in classics of French cinema, such as La Belle Équipe (1937), Les Diaboliques (1955) and Le Piège (1958).

He appeared in over 200 films, including Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955), but, to my mind, he never achieved the truly iconic status he really deserved.

Did he spread himself too thin?

Or perhaps accepted too many secondary roles?

Regardless, I thought he was a marvellous actor. Although not top of my list of handsome men, there was still something about him I would not have said no to.

A solid, steady man, as gentlemen should be.

Oh, and did I mention that he also smoked a pipe. I mean a lot.

#Charles Vanel #pipe smoker #french actor

[davidhudson]

Charles Vanel, Madeleine Renaud, and Jean Grémillon (October 3, 1901 – November 25, 1959) on the set of Le ciel est à vous (1944).

#jean grémillon #madeleine renaud #charles vanel #cinema #film #movies

[mnetn]

le lieutenant maury ✈

développer de l'affection pour des personnages qui se font bully par la vie : ✅

non vraiment c'est crève cœur, de plus c'est littéralement un homme écrit par une femme jvois pas ça autrement (kessel u are real for this) jpp spoil mais ohlala la galère.

euh par contre il est méga stonk, son tour de cou fait approximativement le diamètre d'une seule de mes cuisses...

jdis que dla merde bahahaha (i'm proud)

#l'équipage #1935 #anatole litvak #cinéma français #charles vanel #i kinda like thick boys #the beard 🤲

[celebratetheclassics]

La Maison du mystère (Alexandre Volkoff, 1923)

#La maison du mystere #the house of mystery #alexandre volkoff #ivan mosjoukine #charles vanel #classic film #classicfilmblr #classicfilmsource #silent film #silent era #silent cinema #french film #french cinema #1920s oc #my gifs

[affiches-cinema]

Les diaboliques d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1985.

Dessin de Gid.

#Les diaboliques #Henri Georges Clouzot #1985 #gid #simone signoret #vera clouzot #paul meurisse #charles vanel #french cinema

[whatamigonnawatchtoday]

Les Diaboliques ("The Devils" or "The Fiends")

1954. Psychological Horror

By Henri-Georges Clouzot

Starring: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Pierre Larquey, Michel Serrault, Jean Brochard, Noël Roquevert, Georges Chamarat, Thérèse Dorny...

Country: France

Language: French

#Les Diaboliques #The Devils #The Fiends #Henri-Georges Clouzot #Simone Signoret #Véra Clouzot #Paul Meurisse #Charles Vanel #Pierre Larquey #Michel Serrault #Jean Brochard #Noël Roquevert #Georges Chamarat #Thérèse Dorny #Psychological Horror #Horror #1954 #1950s #France #French #Favorite

[onscreen-heartthrobs]

Charles Vanel & Yves Montand in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear” April 22, 1953.

#Charles Vanel #Yves Montand #The Wages Of Fear #Le Salaire de la peur #Henri Georges Clouzot #1953 #1950s #Queer Coded

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have To Catch a Thief 1955

#To Catch a Thief #Cary Grant #Grace Kelly #Jessie Royce Landis #John Williams #Charles Vanel #Brigitte Auber #Jean Martinelli #Georgette Anys #George Adrian #John Alderson #Martha Bamattre #René Blancard #Eugene Borden #Nina Borget #George Boyce #John Breen #Margaret Brewster #Ralph Brooks #Lewis Charles #Jack Chefe #Frank Chelland #Beulah Christian #Wilson Cornell #Reinie Costello #Paul Cristo #Oliver Cross #William 'Wee Willie' Davis #Dominique Davray #Louise De Carlo

[byneddiedingo]

Charles Vanel and Yves Montand in The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953)

Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Folco Lulli, Peter van Eyck, Véra Clouzot, William Tubbs, Jo Dest, Antonio Centa, Luis De Lima. Screenplay: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jérôme Géronimi, based on a novel by Georges Arnaud. Cinematography: Armand Thirard. Art direction: René Renoux. Film editing: Madelein Gug, Etiennette Muse, Henri Rust. Music: Georges Auric. 

With John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) and Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear forms an unholy trinity of adventure films. All three are about soldiers of fortune in Latin American countries seen as ripe for the pickings by predatory outsiders. Clouzot's film is probably the most deeply cynical of the three: Houston at least lets two of his adventurers survive, and Peckinpah's bunch at least shows some sympathy for the exploited poor. But from the opening of Clouzot's film, in which a half-naked child is seen tormenting some cockroaches (a scene Peckinpah borrowed for his film's opening), we are in hell. The unnamed country is being plundered by the Southern Oil Company, known by the acronym SOC, pronounced "soak." The S and the O, however, suggest Esso, the old trademark of Standard Oil before it and Mobil morphed into the double anonymity of Exxon. An oil well is on fire 300 miles away from the SOC headquarters, which lie on the outskirts of an impoverished village, and the easiest way to deal with the fire is to seal it off with explosives. So the foreman at the headquarters, Bill O'Brien (William Tubbs), proposes sending a couple of trucks cross-country, laden with nitroglycerin. Union drivers would balk at such dangerous work, so the company hires some of the local layabouts: Mario (Yves Montand), a swaggering Corsican; Jo (Charles Vanel), a French gangster from Paris; Luigi (Folco Lulli), an Italian who has just learned that he has a terminal lung illness from his work handling cement for SOC; and Bimba (Peter van Eyck), a German who survived forced labor in a salt mine under the Nazis. All  have been idling in the village waiting for the big break that will allow them to leave, and this seems to be it. Desperation at getting out is so intense that one of the men who vie for the job commits suicide after he fails to land it. The journey is, to say the least, harrowing, and Clouzot makes the most of every nail-biting moment of it. As a director, hes as smart in what he chooses not to show us and in what he does. Jo, for example, is not the first choice as a driver: O'Brien goes with a younger man. But when that man doesn't show up on the morning of departure, Jo takes his place. We don't see what Jo did to eliminate or delay his rival, but we're sure it wasn't good. And when one of the trucks explodes, we don't see the buildup to or the cause of the explosion: We witness it from a distance, and then join the surviving truck drivers as they come upon the scene, which they treat as just another hazardous obstacle on the road. The Wages of Fear was heavily cut on its first American release: The portrayal of American capitalism didn't sit well in the era of HUAC investigations. Clouzot's nihilism in The Wages of Fear sometimes feels a little heavy: One character actually dies with the word "nothing" on his lips. The screenplay for The Wages of Fear lacks the polished wit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which also contains the great performances of Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, and the undervalued Tim Holt. And The Wild Bunch displays Peckinpah's great narrative drive and unequaled handling of action sequences. But Clouzot's film easily belongs in their company, and its uncompromising darkness makes many think it the best of the three.

#The Wages of Fear #Henri-Georges Clouzot #Charles Vanel #Yves Montand

[graceandfamily]

19th Monte-Carlo Television Festival (1977). Princess Grace and Prince Rainier with Charles and Ariette Vanel.

#princess grace #prince rainier #grace and rainier #charles vanel #1977

[genevieveetguy]

Diamonds... The only thing in the world you can't resist.

To Catch a Thief, Alfred Hitchcock (1955)

#Alfred Hitchcock #John Michael Hayes #Cary Grant #Grace Kelly #Jessie Royce Landis #John Williams #Charles Vanel #Brigitte Auber #Jean Martinelli #Georgette Anys #Robert Burks #Lyn Murray #George Tomasini #1955