Jacques Chabannes (Writing)

Midi Première

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Release Date:1975-01-06

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Les choses voient

Release Date:1963-05-28

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Le mari ne compte pas

Release Date:1963-04-02

Department:Crew

Job:Presenter

Vote Count:2

La Flambée

Release Date:1962-03-03

Department:Crew

Job:Presenter

Vote Count:1

Les Violents

Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....

Release Date:1958-01-10

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

Vote Count:4

Inspecteur Grey

Release Date:1956-10-20

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Vote Count:3

Les insoumises

Four noble ladies, four widows, live in isolation in a Berry ch teau. There's the Mme de Bussange, her two sisters Sylvie and Hélène, her sister-in-law Elisabeth and her little boy, who alone will pass on the family name. Two men come along: Gilbert and René, bringing trouble and confusion. Gilbert courts Hélène, while René becomes attached to Elisabeth. Relations between the widows become strained and heated, until an attempt is made on Elisabeth's life. The culprit, Sylvie, kills herself. In despair, Mme de Bussange sets fire to the castle and dies in the inferno.

Release Date:1956-08-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Plaisir du théâtre

Release Date:1956-07-03

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:2

Villa Sans-Souci

The whimsical Jean Latour wins a competition for a month's holiday on the Côte d'Azur. When he arrives at the "Villa Sans Souci", he discovers that the owner and generous donor, M. Mallez, is a doctor, that the property's guests are sick with nerves, and that Mallez has brought him in to entertain his neurasthenic residents.

Release Date:1955-07-12

Palace of Shame

Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol.

Release Date:1954-07-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:5

Boom on Paris

In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...

Release Date:1954-02-19

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:4

Paris Still Sings!

A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins ​​embark on the race for signatures.

Release Date:1951-11-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Triple enquête

Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes.

Release Date:1948-06-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle

Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.

Release Date:1948-04-07

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:1

Le Cabaret du Grand Large

Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions.

Release Date:1946-10-30

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Dorothy Looks for Love

To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.

Release Date:1945-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Miquette

Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis who has romantic designs on the heroine.

Release Date:1940-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.

Release Date:1939-06-07

Department:Writing

Job:Adaptation

Troubled Heart

In 1914, students living in a boarding house are disturbed by a young woman. On the eve of being called up, one of them declares his love for her. She abandons herself to someone who may not come back.

Release Date:1938-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Southern Bar

Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.

Release Date:1938-03-23

Department:Writing

Job:Dialogue

The West

The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.

Release Date:1938-02-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer