#dora doll

[ufonaut]

This was supposed to be my last job.

Touchez pas au grisbi (1954, dir. Jacques Becker)

[tina-aumont]

January 1955 - Lucita (right) and French-German actress Dora Doll having dinner together at "L'Elyséés Club" Parisian restaurant owned by Pierre Louis. This was the favouite place were movie stars should meet in the 1950s. Among others, a very young Brigitte Bardot also attended.

This photo was published at French magazine Cinémonde, 7th January 1955. Here below you have the full page where you can see also Brigitte Bardot.

Gallica

[mariocki]

L'enfer (Torment, 1994)

"I'm jealous."

"Jealous? Of whom? Of what?"

"I don't know. But it's killing me. It's killing me."

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Touchez Pas au Grisbi (Don't Touch the Loot) (1954) Jacques Becker

February 22nd 2025

[taffetastrology]

The signs as French Cancan costumes

Aries

Taurus

Gemini

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

[brokehorrorfan]

Mania Killer will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 9 via Full Moon Features. The 1987 horror film is also known as Maniac Killer.

Andrea Bianchi (Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror) directs from a script by Georges Friedland (The Panther Squad), Marius Lesoeur (Women Behind Bars), and H.L. Rostaine (Cannibal Terror). Bo Svenson, Chuck Connors, Robert Ginty, and Dora Doll star.

Mania Killer has been remastered in its uncut form from the best available archival materials. No special features are included.

A malevolent religious cult stalks a French village, kidnapping prostitutes and subjecting them to unimaginable torments under the guise of saving their souls. When a young man's girlfriend is taken by the sect, he teams up with a mob of angry pimps to track down the maniacal, holy rolling killers and put an end to their bloody mission, once and for all.

Pre-order Mania Killer from Amazon.

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Jean Gabin is Max and Dora Doll is Lola in Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954), co-written and directed by Jacques Becker.  Jacques was born in Paris and had 17 director credits, from a 1935 short to 1960.  He has two other films on the TSPDT list of the 1,000 Greatest Films.  Casque d’Or (1952) is number 701, and his final film, Le Trou (1960) is number 897.

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Elena and her Men (1956) Jean Renoir

14-10-2019

A fun love triangle involving French and Polish political nobility before the first world war