Lucien Gallas

Acting

Lucien Gallas

Born — Died

1904-03-23 — 1967-05-26

Place of birth

Oullins, Rhône, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 10 titles

At the Edge of the City poster
7.0

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

At the Edge of the City

1953

Days of Love poster
6.7

A man and a woman would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin".

Days of Love

1954

The Woman with the Orchid poster
7.0

A bold police officer arrives, not without difficulty, to infiltrate a dangerous gang of drug traffickers. With the help of a beautiful young woman, he tries to stop their nefarious activities ...

The Woman with the Orchid

1952

Prigionieri delle tenebre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prigionieri delle tenebre

1952

Les Quatre Sergents du Fort Carré poster
7.0

André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.

Les Quatre Sergents du Fort Carré

1952

Napoli terra d'amore poster
9.0

The story of an honest young man entangled by a night singer in the Camorra.

Napoli terra d'amore

1954

Camilla poster
6.5

Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.

Camilla

1954

Fortune carrée poster
7.0

Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he flees and joins the Ghafaris, determined to help his former enemies against the Amiris. Taken prisoner, he is saved by his young slave, Yasmina, while the Ghafaris are almost completely annihilated. He takes refuge on the ship of the trafficker Mordhom. Having provoked the death of his servant, he is put on trial by Mordhom but acquitted by his peers. Mordhom then lands Igricheff on the coast, and the latter succeeds in saving the Frenchman from an Amiri attack. The two men reconcile and set off on their adventures together.

Fortune carrée

1955

Foreign Earth poster
5.8

A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.

Foreign Earth

1954

Foreign Earth poster
5.8

A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.

Foreign Earth

1954

1940s · 10 titles

The Benefactor poster
7.6

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.

The Benefactor

1942

Le Chant de l'exilé poster
9.0

In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a beautiful voice, has the good life. He is engaged to his charming cousin Maria. But his daily life is called into question when, during a fight, he believes he has killed a bad boy. He flees to Algeria where, with a friend, he joins the Saharan Pioneers.

Le Chant de l'exilé

1943

Fièvres poster
6.5

Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She dies while listening to the song he dedicated to her, "Maria". He then retired to the south where he led a life in complete anonymity. But his best friend's fiancé recognizes him and seduces him. Following a fight with his best friend, he decides to return to order by becoming a monk.

Fièvres

1942

Love Around the Clock poster
6.3

Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeois trying to escape from his mediocre life, to a frivolous mother, to a reveler in nightclubs, to a man stranded without money in a restaurant, to a young sportsman, to a singer tired of the selfishness of his listeners and to a condemned man. To each, she brings the imperative message of Time...

Love Around the Clock

1943

Valley of Hell poster
7.2

Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison for theft. Noël goes to see a dying friend, Romieux, who asks him to take care of his daughter Marthe, who has settled in Paris (Batignolles district). Noël goes there and discovers that Marthe is destitute (her lover Gaston being an incarcerated mobster): he then offers her to come and live with him and soon, marries her.

Valley of Hell

1943

Madame et le mort poster
9.0

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?

Madame et le mort

1943

Le moussaillon poster
10.0

The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clockmaker, the woman weds. He turns to delinquent behavior and smuggling and leaves on a ship, just like his father.

Le moussaillon

1942

Hell of Angels poster
6.9

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

Hell of Angels

1941

Madame and Her Redskins poster
7.0

After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a singer who knows how to make her see life with more poetry.

Madame and Her Redskins

1948

Night Shift poster
8.0

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

Night Shift

1944

1930s · 23 titles

No artwork available
9.0

The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all she thinks about is dancing. And she dances while Mr. Floche finds happiness with a musichall star.

Flofloche

1934

Grisou poster
8.0

Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.

Grisou

1938

No artwork available
7.0

A young inventor who has developed a television set falls in love. Early sound version of this film made in various languages (a not uncommon practice at the time) by Paramount Pictures , all now apparently lost.

Television: French Version

1931

Vacances poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vacances

1932

Un soir à Marseille poster
8.0

The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.

Un soir à Marseille

1938

Vacances payées poster
9.0

Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.

Vacances payées

1938

Not on the mouth poster
8.0

A wife uses the pretext, that her American husband refuses to kiss her on the lips, to divorce him. Later after she is remarried he tries in vain to win her back.

Not on the mouth

1931

La fusée poster
8.0

The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social progress for his workers is undermined by the Board of Directors.

La fusée

1933

No artwork available
10.0

A woman of the world has fallen in love with a metalworker, and one evening gives herself to him. Some time later, the worker becomes blind. One last time, he will touch with his hands the machines with which he will no longer work while the countess returns to her life of pleasures.

La voix du métal

1933

Billeting Over poster
9.0

Major Labourdette receives an accommodation ticket to spend the night with the widow Martin. Now, there are two Martin widows in the small garrison town, and one of them keeps a house of promiscuous girls. Labourdette gets the wrong landlady and ends up at home. He will keep an unforgettable memory of this night.

Billeting Over

1932

The Men Without Names poster
7.0

The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.

The Men Without Names

1937

La Loupiote poster
7.0

Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.

La Loupiote

1937

A Hand Hit poster
9.0

The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.

A Hand Hit

1939

The Land That Dies poster
9.0

In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned remain at his side.

The Land That Dies

1936

Liberté poster
9.0

Fictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.

Liberté

1938

L'Ange que j'ai vendu poster
8.0

Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a crook. Undaunted, he produces a film written by a young scriptwriter, Maurice Rogier, discovered by his daughter but does not believe it could become a success. Esther, for her part, decides to have "L'ange que j'ai vendu" shown in a local movie theater and the film immediately proves a hit. All is well that ends well, Esther marrying Maurice into the bargain.

L'Ange que j'ai vendu

1938

Le Petit Jacques poster
10.0

An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.

Le Petit Jacques

1934

The Little One of Montparnasse poster
NR

A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and even work they can share to make a few bucks, but the father prefers he marry someone else.

The Little One of Montparnasse

1932

Aux portes de Paris poster
9.0

A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.

Aux portes de Paris

1935

Southern Bar poster
10.0

Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.

Southern Bar

1938

Corsican Brothers poster
10.0

Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.

Corsican Brothers

1939

Promesses poster
7.0

A scout leader enlists a friend of hers who broke off her engagement because of the young man's ruin. Both try to instill in the young boys entrusted to them a sense of duty and honor.

Promesses

1939

Saint Theresa of Lisieux poster
7.0

The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.

Saint Theresa of Lisieux

1938