The Four Legs
A Short film of
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Production year1931
Runtime25 min
Synopsis
Hector Mézoui teaches Greek. While he corrects his students’ homework, Edgar Landres is fondling Hector’s wife Janine. Invited to a fancy dress ball, Edgar goes as the front legs of a horse while Hector takes the back legs. Discovering that Edgar is his wife’s lover results in a fight between them, but then they make up and all three go off together to conclude their evening at Monsieur Collignon’s.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Etablissements Braunberger-Richebé
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Jeudi
- French distribution : United Artists
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Roger Richebé, Pierre Braunberger
- Screenwriters : Marc Allégret, Georges Dolley
- Director of Photography : Théodore Sparkuhl
- Music Composer : Jean Bastia
- Assistant directors : Yves Allégret, Claude Heymann
- Editor : Jean Mamy
- Sound recordists : D.F. Scanlon, Bugnon
- Production Manager : Roger Woog
- Production Designer : Gabriel Scognamillo
- Still Photographer : Roger Forster
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
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