The Amorous Corporal (1958)
- Original title
- La Bigorne, caporal de France
- Directed by
- Robert Darène
- Genre
- comedy film, adventure film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A French corporal gets into comedic adventures on eighteenth-century Madagascar. The film is a lighthearted romp with slapstick humor and a swashbuckling tone.
lightheartedwhimsicalplayfula bit datedswashbucklingbreezypicaresqueslapstick
What happens
The Amorous Corporal (French: La Bigorne, caporal de France) is a 1958 French adventure-comedy film co-written and directed by Robert Darène. Loosely based on the novel La Bigorne, caporal de France by Pierre Nord, it is set in eighteenth-century Madagascar. It was the first cinematography credit for Pierre Lhomme. It aired on cable TV in the US in 1973 as part of a package of non-English language movies called "Movies for Swingers". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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