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The Crowned Fish Tavern

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The Crowned Fish Tavern
Directed byRené Chanas
Written byRené Chanas
Nino Frank
Henri Jeanson
Produced byRené Chanas
Robert Chabert
StarringMichel Simon
Jules Berry
Blanchette Brunoy
CinematographyNikolai Toporkoff
Edited byClaude Nicole
Music byJean Martinon
Production
company
Les Acteurs et Techniciens Français
Distributed byFrancinex
Release date
  • 10 December 1947 (1947-12-10)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Crowned Fish Tavern (French: La taverne du poisson couronné) is a 1947 French drama film directed by René Chanas and starring Michel Simon, Jules Berry and Blanchette Brunoy.[1] [2] It was shot at the Epinay Studios outside Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Marquet.

Synopsis

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In a port town captain Palmer returns to discovers that his daughter Maria's husband Leo has abandoned her to take up with another woman Sylvia. Palmer's attempts to confront him and fix the situation leads to the latter's murder in the Crowned Fish tavern of the title for which the wrong man is accused.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Rège p.204
  2. ^ Loubier p.406

Bibliography

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  • Loubier, Jean-Marc. Michel Simon: Ou Le roman d'un jouisseur. Ramsay, 1989.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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