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Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was married to the actress Vanda Gréville. ==Career== The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, ''Sous les toits de Paris'' (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's ''Napoléon'' in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film ''Piccadilly'', ''L'Arlésienne'' (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's ''Miss Europe'' (with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's ''La Fin du Monde''. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films: *''Le Train des suicidés'' (1931) *''Remous'' (1934) with Françoise Rosay, a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence, and released in the US in November 1939 under title ''Whirlpool of Desire'' after a legal battle over U.S. censorship〔Susan Hayward ''French National Cinema''; 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2005) p.185.〕 *Two comedy musical films ''Princesse Tam Tam'' (1935) with Josephine Baker, and ''Gypsy Melody'' (1936), with Lupe Vélez. In Britain again, he filmed ''Under Secret Orders'' (1937) with Dita Parlo and John Loder (1937), the English-language version of G. W. Pabst's ''Mademoiselle Docteur''. Gréville also directed ''Menaces'' (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, with von Stroheim playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterizes his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time. He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky.〔Susan Hayward, ''French National Cinema''; 2nd ed. (London: Routledge, 2005) ISBN 0-415-30783-X〕 In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Anglo-Dutch film ''Niet tevergeefs/But Not in Vain''. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, ''Noose'', released in the U.S. as ''The Silk Noose''. In ''Le Port du désir'' (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edmond T. Gréville」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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