Le Bossu (1959 film)


Le Bossu is a FrenchItalian swashbuckler film starring Jean Marais and directed by Andr Hunebelle. The film also featured Bourvil, possibly the most popular French comedian of the time. So successful was the formula that Hunebelle teamed up the same two actors for his next action film, Captain Blood.

The film was shot between Mayand Julyin the Franstudio of SaintMaurice and in the PyrnesOrientales. The scene showing how three henchmen are sent to Spain for Lagardre and the dukes daughter were shot at the Pont du Diable Cret. Matre darmes Andr Gardre was the accountable instructor concerning the choreography of all fencing scenes. Guy Delorme, who would play Comte de Rochefort in Bernard Borderies 1961 version of The Three Musketeers appears here as a henchman. Sabine Sesselmann was dubbed by Gilberte Aubry as Aurore de Nevers and Jacqueline Porel as Isabelle de Caylus.

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