Mauvaise Graine (1934)

Original title

Mauvaise graine

Directed by

Alexander Esway, Billy Wilder

Genre

drama film, crime film, action comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 26m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy young playboy’s reckless lifestyle leads him to accidentally fall in with a gang of car thieves in 1930s France. He has to adapt to their criminal world while trying to avoid getting caught.

lightheartedfast-pacedplayfulslightly rebelliouscriminaladventurousentertainingclassic-era

What happens

Mauvaise Graine (English: Bad Seed) is a 1934 French action comedy directed by Billy Wilder (in his directorial debut) and Alexander Esway. The screenplay by Wilder, Jan Lustig, Max Colpet, and Claude-André Puget focuses on a wealthy young playboy who becomes involved with a gang of car thieves. Although Wilder and Esway shared the directing credit, in later years leading lady Danielle Darrieux recalled Esway had been involved with the project in some capacity but clearly remembered she had never seen him on the set. It was remade in Britain in 1936 as the film The First Offence starring John Mills and Lilli Palmer. It was later remade in France as the 1950 film The Unexpected Voyager. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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