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Looking for reviews of films directed by Edmond T. Gréville? Cinafilm has a total of 11 reviews across 1 movies directed by Edmond T. Gréville.
Movies from this director have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average rating of 55%.
Beat Girl is Edmond T. Gréville's highest rated movie, with a score of 55% based on 11 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Edmond T. Gréville is Beat Girl, with a score of 55% based on 11 reviews.
Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director.
The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Under the roofs of Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance''s Napoleon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's the Price of beauty ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's the End of The World.
Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicides (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence), and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Doctor with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Threats (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing year Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.
He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined gold put a stop to some careers, among film-makers and those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In The Port of desire (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man.
In Gréville''s last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was The Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel.
In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident.
Edmond T. Gréville has directed films starring Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Gillian Hills and Nigel Green.
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