The Fraudster (French: Le fraudeur) is a 1937 French crime drama film directed by Léopold Simons and starring Félicien Tramel, Ginette Leclerc and Robert Lynen.Bessy & Chirat p.214 The film's sets were designed by the art director Émile Duquesne.
Synopsis Florimond, a smuggler is having difficulty with a consignment of goods. He gets accomplice and mistress Viviane to seduce Théo a naive peasant boy she encounters in order to rope him into their scheme.
Cast Félicien Tramel as Florimond Ginette Leclerc as Viviane Léopold Simons as Alphonse Robert Lynen as Théo Jacques Varennes as Jacques Line Dariel as Zulma Palmyre Levasseur as Mélanie Danielle Lorek as Julia Cardon as Michel Daudelin as Prosper
References
Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2. Pygmalion, 1986. Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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