Love and Desire

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Love and Desire
File:Love and Desire.jpg
Directed by
Produced by
Written by
Based on Le désir et l'amour by Auguste Bailly
Starring
Music by
Cinematography Michel Kelber
Edited by
Production
company
  • Lais S.A.
  • Société Générale de Cinématographie
Distributed by Les Films Marceau
Release dates
9 October 1951
Running time
80 minutes
Country
  • France
  • Spain
Language French

Love and Desire (French: Le désir et l'amour) is a 1951 French-Spanish drama film directed by Henri Decoin and Luis María Delgado and starring Martine Carol, Antonio Vilar and Carmen Sevilla.[1] It was based on the 1929 novel of the same title by Auguste Bailly.[2]

It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris and on location in Madrid, Torremolinos and Malaga. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Julio Molina and René Renoux.

Synopsis

A French film crew are working on location in southern Spain. When the leading man refuses to swim across a river, his place is taken by a local man who is soon hired as a stuntman for the whole film. Much to the anger of his Spanish fiancée, he falls in love with the film's female star.

Cast

References

  1. Bentley p.413
  2. Goble p.735

Bibliography

  • Bentley, Bernard. A Companion to Spanish Cinema. Boydell & Brewer 2008.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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