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79 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
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History of Singing
1947 1h 35m FR
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BANGER
★8.0TMDB · 1
ComedyMusic
Synopsis
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Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes up with the voice of Gino and Gino with that of Robert (including accents and mannerisms!). The unfaithful wife despises the tenor without his voice and becomes more interested in the grocer.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Luis Mariano
Gino Fabretti
Julien Carette
Robert
Noël Roquevert
Le docteur Renault
Arlette Merry
Gisèle
Marcel Delaître
Doniol
Jacqueline Roman
Jeannette
Robert Arnoux
Barette
Jean Gaven
Jack Bing
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Gilles Grangier
- Languages
- French
- Countries
- France
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The take
Gilles Grangier directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in France. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 179 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 3Luis Mariano and Julien Carette and Noël Roquevert carry the top of the cast.
- 4IMDB entry: tt0170001 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 5Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 95 min · 1h 35m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
Also by
Gilles Grangier
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1948-11-26
