The films of
Maurice Tourneur
Volpone (1941)
Maurice Tourneur 		  Le Val d'enfer (1943)
Maurice Tourneur 		  La Main du diable (1943)
Maurice Tourneur 		 
     
One of the finest French language adaptations of an English play, Volpone should be regarded as nothing less than a masterpiece of filmed theatrical farce...  [More...]   Le Val d’enfer was the fourth of five films which Maurice Tourneur made for Continental, the German run film company that operated in France during the Nazi occupation...  [More...]   One of the most chilling fantasy horror films made in France, La Main du diable is basically just an ingenious variation on the famous Faust legend...  [More...]  
Cécile est morte (1944)
Maurice Tourneur 		     
     
In this, the second of the three Maigret films made by the German-run Continental Films during the Occupation, popular film star Albert Préjean reprises his role as the famed pipe-smoking detective...  [More...]      





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