Open Door to the Sea / The Great Temptation
Synopsis
Captain Vilette (Victor Francen), the recently-appointed commander of the Naval officer's school where his son (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is a cadet. The younger Vilette becomes involved in his dad's personal affairs when the Captain falls in love with a very-married American heiress (Marcel Chantal). Hoping that the Captain will marry the gorgeous woman -- after she divorces her husband of course -- Vilette Jr. arranges an elopement in a "borrowed" navy plane. This results in an apparent tragedy, for which the duty-bound Vilette holds his son responsible. On the verge of court-martial and disgrace, the young man is saved and the Captain is able to marry his sweetheart. Much of La Porte du Large was filmed on location at the Ecole Navale at Brest.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Alliance Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Societé d'Exploitation et de Distribution de Films (SEDIF)
Full credits (11)
- Screenwriters : Charles Spaak, Marcel L'Herbier, Albert Valentin
- Dialogue Writer : Marcel L'Herbier
- Director of Photography : Armand Thirard
- Music Composers : Michel Michelet, Pierre Chagnon
- Assistant directors : Ève Francis, Jaque-Catelain
- Editor : Henri Rust
- Costume designer : Jacques Manuel
- Author of original work : Charles Spaak
- Camera Operator : Louis Née
- Production Manager : Simon Schiffrin
- Production Designer : Guy De Gastyne
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Adventure
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1936
- French release : 23/10/1936
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 1825
- Visa issue date : 31/10/1940
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
