Movies: Georges Monca

Recommended by a friend of the Ambigu Theatre, Max is summoned to Joinville studios. His first role is that of a husband who comes home late....

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On one side, a crooked banker, his nephew and his orderly; on the other, the honest friend of the banker and his daughter. Substitution of male and female characters that end with two marriages....

A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is in love with an engineer, employed in a rival company....

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Charles Prince, his gift of a posy spurned in favor of a rival's expensive ring, goes to enlist in the Balkan Wars. Sort of. That is, he goes to Pathe Freres and talks them into making a movie about him enlisting (and fighting) in the Balkans. That'l...

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Germaine Reuver's father doesn't like Charles Prince because he isn't musical. Mlle Reuver tries to teach him to play the ocarina, which he promptly swallows. It becomes lodged in his throat and he emits its dulcet tones, which cause s everyone to da...

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Lord Samsey murders his uncle in order to get rich. His sister's boyfriend vows to find who the murderer is so he can clear his wrongly accused father....

Boireau's father keeps trying to apprentice him to a different trade. Each time, the youngster annoys the customers and destroys the goods and property....

To restore health to their little boy, the Henry couple decided to live in Brittany. The child has a cult of the sea. One day, he follows a band of little Bretons to the high seas and the children would all be drowned if their fathers had not arrived...

This Max Linder short opens with him and his girl blissfully rowing in a canoe before skipping ahead two years later....

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A black man is introduced at a high society party, where he proposes to a débutante. He's refused because of his colour. He goes to an inventor who has a potion that turns him white. Now she's interested in him, but after he slips her some of the eli...

A man behaves like a monkey after its brain is transplanted into him....

Rigadin, prohibited by his sweetheart's father from courting her, finally decides to work properly....

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