If All The Guys in the World (Si Tous Les Gars
du Monde)
Year made: 1955
Country: France
Duration: 1:47 mins.
Director :
CHRISTIAN-JAQUE FRANCE
Script
: Jacques RÉMY
Adaptation and dialogues :
Henri-Georges
CLOUZOT et CHRISTIAN-JAQUE
Director of photography :
Armand THlRARD
Music :
Georges Van PARYS
Production :
Films Ariane, Cinetel,
Filmsonor
Print: Black & white
Casting:
Le
Guellec : André VALMY
Jos
: Jean GAVEN
Benj : Georges POUJOULY
Jean-Louis : Jean-Louis TRINTIGNANT
Marcel : Marc CASSOT
Christine : Hélène PERDRIÉRE
Mme
Le Guellec : Bernadette LANGE
Saint-Savin : Bernard DHERAN
Mohamed : Doudou BABET
Riri : Jean CLARIEUX
Karl : Mathias WIEMAN
Totoche : Claude SYLVAIN
The
crew of a trawler in the North Atlantic is
stricken with botulism and radios for help.
A
succession of short-wave amateurs from Togoland
to Paris to East and West Berlin and
finally
Denmark rise above their personal problems,
obtain the necessary serum and, just
in time,
get it parachuted down to the fishermen. At no
point does anyone suggest contacting
any
official organization - was there really none?
The film skids along efficiently enough from
one
crisis to the next, and its theme of
international co-operation at street level is a
Cold War
antidote. But it's superficial stuff,
of interest today for the involvement of the
usually more
cynical H-G Clouzot (he
co-scripted), for marking the debut of
Trintignant and - for British
audiences -
providing the genesis of Tony Hancock's TV
classic 'The Radio Ham'.
Pierre Fresnay
narrates.
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15th March 2006