The School for Sons-in-law (1897)
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- comedy film, silent film
- Country
- France
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This French silent comedy is set in a painted garden. It follows silly lessons meant for men being trained as good sons in law.
lightcomedicplayfulwhimsicaltheatricalbrisksimplesilent-film charm
What happens
The School for Sons-in-law (French: L'École des gendres) is an 1897 French short silent film by Georges Méliès. It was inspired by a vaudeville (in the sense of a light stage comedy) by Eugène Bertol-Graivil, a French playwright whose real name was Eugène Domicent (1857–1910). The School for Sons-in-law was filmed outdoors in the garden of the Méliès family property in Montreuil-sous-Bois, with painted scenery; many parts of the set were reused in other films. It was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 102 in its catalogues, but is currently presumed lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
- The Barber and the Farmer (1897)
- A Funny Mahometan (1897)
- L'Arroseur (1896)
- Between Calais and Dover (1897)
- L'auberge ensorcelée (1897)
- Les fleurs animées (1906)
- Education of a Prince (1927)
- Les Résultats du féminisme (1906)
Browse movies and series
press Enter to search by title, your filters still apply · for something by mood, tap Discover
Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers
Loading movies…