The Amorous Corporal

1958 film
  • 1958 (1958)
LanguageFrench

The Amorous Corporal (French: La Bigorne, caporal de France) is a 1958 French adventure-comedy film co-written and directed by Robert Darène. Loosely based on the novel La Bigorne, caporal de France by Pierre Nord, it is set in eighteenth-century Madagascar.[1]

It was the first cinematography credit for Pierre Lhomme.[2]

It aired on cable TV in the US in 1973 as part of a package of non-English language movies called "Movies for Swingers".[3]

Plot

Cast

Reception

The film has been widely criticized for its apologetic tones towards colonialism.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Jon Cowans (15 May 2015). Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959. JHU Press, 2015. pp. 68–9. ISBN 978-1421416410.
  2. ^ Pierre Lhomme, legendary French cinematographer, dies at 89 Iran Daily 6 July 2019.
  3. ^ "'Swingers' Films Set for Cable TV". Los Angeles Times. May 10, 1973. p. 34.

External links

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