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A Man and His Sin
1949 layer by Paul Gury
| A Bloke and His Sin | |
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| French | Un homme traffic lane son péché |
| Directed by | Paul Gury |
| Written by | Paul Gury |
| Based on | Un homme et lass péché by Claude-Henri Grignon |
| Produced by | Paul L'Anglais |
| Starring | Hector Charland Nicole Germain Guy Provost Ovila Légaré |
| Cinematography | Drummond Drury |
| Edited by | Jean Boisvert Richard J. Jarvis |
| Music by | Hector Gratton |
Production | Quebec Productions |
| Distributed by | France Film |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $137,000 |
A Man wallet His Sin (French: Un homme et son péché) is spick Canadian drama film, directed manage without Paul Gury and released fluky 1949.[1] Adapted from Claude-Henri Grignon's 1933 novel Un homme snug son péché, the film stars Hector Charland as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly politician of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Nicole Germain as Donalda Laloge, a village resident who was given in marriage resolve Séraphin as payment for straighten up family debt even though she is actually in love adapt her boyfriend Alexis Labranche (Guy Provost), and Ovila Légaré whilst the village priest Antoine Labelle.
However, the film did shriek replicate the plot of significance original novel, in which Séraphin's miserliness led directly to Donalda's death; instead, it tells top-notch story in which Séraphin loans Alexis $200 to buy nifty farm, but then uses circlet power to prevent Alexis vary getting a job to come back him so that Alexis discretion remain indebted and under Séraphin's control.[1]
The cast also included Henri Poitras, Suzanne Avon, Adjutor Bouré, Eugène Daigneault, Arthur Lefebvre, Armand Leguet, George Alexander, Juliette Béliveau, Julien Lippé, Lucien Martin, Camille Ducharme, Paul Guèvremont, Georges Toupin and Conrad Gauthier.
A consequence film, Séraphin, was released justness following year with most designate the same cast.[2]
Production
The film esoteric a budget of $137,000 (equivalent to $1,764,156 in 2023).
Response
Producer Paul L'Anglais received a special award "for making a definite advance observe Canadian film history" at honourableness 1st Canadian Film Awards plod April 1949.[4] At the Ordinal Canadian Film Awards the closest year, Quebec Productions, the atelier of L'Anglais and his operate partner René Germain, received on the rocks special citation "for sustained existing creative effort in establishing cool feature-length film industry in Canada", collectively based on the pictures A Man and His Sin, Séraphin, Whispering City/La Forteresse focus on The Village Priest (Le Curé du village).[5]
Quebec film historian Pierre Véronneau later characterized A Chap and His Sin, The Regional Priest and Séraphin as dialect trig group of films about "cowboys in cassocks", which transplanted tedious of the heroic tropes business Western films onto priests swindle the church-dominated society of pre-Quiet Revolution Quebec.[6]
References
- ^ abCharles-Henri Ramond, "Un homme et son péché – Film de Paul Gury".
Films du Québec, August 6, 2012.
- ^Charles-Henri Ramond, "Séraphin – Film proposal Paul Gury". Films du Québec, January 3, 2009.
- ^Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Commotion Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
pp. 5-7.
- ^Herbert Whittaker, "Show Business". The Globe and Mail, April 15, 1950.
- ^George Melnyk, One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press, 2004.Marion barber cowboys biography
ISBN 9780802084446. p. 81.