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L'enfant de l'amour

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  • 1h 30m
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3.7/10
17
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Drama
The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
IMDb RATING
3.7/10
17
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    • Marcel L'Herbier
    • Henry Bataille(play)
    • Marcel L'Herbier(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Emmy Lynn
    • Jaque Catelain
    • Warwick Ward
    • Marcel L'Herbier
    • Henry Bataille(play)
    • Marcel L'Herbier(scenario)
  • Stars
    • Emmy Lynn
    • Jaque Catelain
    • Warwick Ward
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    • 1Critic review
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    Emmy Lynn
    • Liane Orland
    Jaque Catelain
    Jaque Catelain
    • Maurice Orland
    Warwick Ward
    Warwick Ward
    • (English version)
    Marcelle Pradot
    Marcelle Pradot
    • Nellie Rantz
    Jean Angelo
    Jean Angelo
    • Paul Rantz
    Marie Glory
    Marie Glory
    • Aline
    Michel Simon
    Michel Simon
    • Lorédan
    Betty Walson
    • (English version)
    Odette Talazac
    Odette Talazac
    • Une invitée
    Mariette Sully
    • Madame Clerc
    Jean Mercanton
    • Le petit Maurice
    Pierre Juvenet
    • Raymond
    Marcel Barencey
    • Le directeur du journal
    • (as Barencey)
    Alexandre Mihalesco
    Alexandre Mihalesco
    • Le secrétaire de Rantz
    Georges Tréville
    Georges Tréville
    • Le baron
    Philippe Hersent
    Desdemona Mazza
    Desdemona Mazza
    Carlos San Martín
      • Marcel L'Herbier
      • Henry Bataille(play)
      • Marcel L'Herbier(scenario)
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      Marcelle Pradot's final film.
    • Connections
      Remade as L'enfant de l'amour (1944)

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    3/10
    Awful melodrama.
    This is the first talkie by Lherbier and it has not aged well.Just coming out of the silent era,the cinema was still "filmed stage production " style.

    A woman (I will not mention the name of the actress) has an illegal son;she used to be a music hall artist (les Folies Bergères) and she has had a lover (a politician) for many years.Now the child has become a young man and the politician's career is buoyant:he is to become a secretary (minister).This nasty man is sick and tired of his lover's friends (there is some excuse:they are unbearable;among them ,Michel Simon in a cameo).The lady's son ,who is a journalist decides to blackmail the reluctant father-in-law.

    When you remember what the Americans did at the time (the sensational "only yesterday' by Stahl,for instance) ,the French attempt is dismal.Performances are laughable ,worthy of a middle-brow show,script is inept:for instance,the hero grows up overnight from a poor brat his mother leaves home to a young dashing reporter.The scene when the mother tells her boy she was ditched -and with a six-figure check at that ,like a hooker!- is unintentionally funny as the actress complains "I'm suffering! I'm so suffering!How could he do this to me?" Stupid ending,which all melodrama lovers will dislike (and I'm part of them).

    Awful melodrama.
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    • dbdumonteil
    • Jun 18, 2006

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      • February 3, 1930 (France)
      • France
      • French
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      • Pathé-Natan
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
      • Black and White

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