Production

Marcel Vandal

Born — Died

1882-03-01 — 1965-01-01

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Production

Credits

27 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Smiling Madame Beudet poster
6.0

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

The Smiling Madame Beudet

1923

The Five Accursed Gentlemen poster
7.0

European tourists on holiday in Morocco are threatened by a native sorcerer who predicts five of them will die, one by one, before the full moon.

The Five Accursed Gentlemen

1932

Mother Hummingbird poster
4.7

A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.

Mother Hummingbird

1929

Work poster
10.0

Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.

Work

1920

No artwork available
9.0

A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.

Le Voleur

1933

The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux poster
7.0

A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.

The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux

1929

S. S. Tenacity poster
8.0

Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.

S. S. Tenacity

1934

A Man's Head poster
6.1

Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

A Man's Head

1933

David Golder poster
6.5

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.

David Golder

1931

The Little King poster
6.3

King Michel VIII is still a child, but when revolution threatens, the young monarch's entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.

The Little King

1933

Au Bonheur des Dames poster
6.3

Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.

Au Bonheur des Dames

1930

L'Homme à l'Hispano poster
7.0

The almost financial ruined gentleman Georges Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from friends. George becomes the lover of 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.

L'Homme à l'Hispano

1926

No artwork available
8.0

Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.

L'Eau du Nil

1928

Revelation poster
7.0

A former professor and devout Catholic living in Jerusalem is unaware that his son supposedly studying in Paris has actually become the leader of an anarchist network under the codename Sirias.

Revelation

1927

No artwork available
10.0

Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.

Fra Diavolo

1931

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La closerie des Genets

1925

The Lady of Lebanon poster
8.0

The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.

The Lady of Lebanon

1934

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower poster
5.8

The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing the money. This formidable brotherhood, whose headquarters are in the Eiffel Tower, send the Mironton Brothers on impossible adventures and countless traps.

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower

1928

No artwork available
8.0

Based on the play by Pierre Wolff.

Le Secret de Polichinelle

1923

The Burning Mountains poster
10.0

Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian mountain guides take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides in the same area in the Dolomites, fighting to conquer the same high pass (Col Alto). When the war is over, they meet again. Their friendship has survived the war. There are two other versions of the film. The original was shot in German the same year (Berge in Flammen). The other, shot in English the year after, was produced by the American Universal Pictures (The Doomed Battalion). Both uses scenes from the original German version.

The Burning Mountains

1931

Moon over Morocco poster
6.2

When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...

Moon over Morocco

1931

Mountains on Fire poster
6.5

Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.

Mountains on Fire

1931

The Man with the Hispano poster
7.0

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.

The Man with the Hispano

1933

Fleur d'amour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fleur d'amour

1927

Fleur d'amour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fleur d'amour

1927

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Crystal Submarine

1927

Graziella poster
7.0

During a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella. They are separated when he must return to France, and Graziella soon dies.

Graziella

1926