Claude Desailly
Claude Desailly was a French screenwriter. He collaborated on a number of films with the director Robert Hossein.
Works
La Conquête du ciel
Release Date:1980-09-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
The Visitors
Les Visiteurs is about the disappearance of a team of six extraterrestrials coming to study Earth. The Empire of the Four Planets dispatch two police detectives to find them. They slip into two human bodies just as they are about to die, those of a Frenchman Jean-Louis and a German woman Renate, and resuscitate them so as to pursue their mission.
Release Date:1980-04-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:3
Michael Strogoff
Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge.
Release Date:1975-12-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:10
Les Brigades du Tigre
Release Date:1974-12-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:36
Vote Count:8
Two Years Vacation
The story of a group of young New Zealand school boys. Because one of them is the nephew of a ship captain, they win the opportunity to go on a sailing trip. Some pirates (Forbes and Pike) are looking for a boat so they can go and find treasure on a deserted island. They manage to be recruited as crew members on that same boat as the school boys. After a mutiny, the pirates take over the boat and take the young boys as hostages. Helped by O'Brian, the young kids manage to escape from the pirates with the boat. After a storm, they have to land on a deserted island. They have learn to live together in harmony if they want their community to survive, despite the rivalry within the group. But is this island really a deserted one? And can they really get away from the pirates?
Release Date:1974-06-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:14
L'Homme qui revient de loin
The story of a rich and arrogant owner of a French château who disappears suddenly, leaving the direction of his company to his younger brother and his ambitious wife Fanny. But soon, the ghost of the missing brother arrives to disrupt the couple’s dream life.
Release Date:1972-09-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Prosper
Episode Count:6
Wer kennt diesen Mann?
Release Date:1971-09-19
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Falling Point
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...
Release Date:1970-09-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:11
Cemetery Without Crosses
Ruthlessly pursued by the Rogers family following a dispute over cattle, Ben Caine (Benito Stefanelli) is chased back to the Caine Ranch. Despite his wife Maria's (Michèle Mercier) desperate pleading, the Rogers family hangs Ben Caine, forcing Maria to watch. Consumed with revenge but finding her two brothers-in-law reluctant to assist, Maria enlists the help of Manuel (Robert Hossein). Manual, presumably preoccupied with the past, wears a single black glove and lives alone in a ghost town. Manuel agrees to Maria's plan with reluctance, in part because of his deep feelings/attraction to her. Manuel finds employment as foreman at the Rogers' ranch and surreptitiously kidnaps Pa Rogers' (Daniele Vargas) only daughter Johanna (Anne-Marie Balin). With Johanna as the bait, Maria will be in the perfect position to exact her revenge on the Rogers but things don't turn out quite as planned.
Release Date:1969-01-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:68
I Killed Rasputin
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Release Date:1967-05-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
The Vampire of Dusseldorf
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
Release Date:1965-04-07
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:18
Marked Eyes
A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband.
Release Date:1964-09-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:11
Death of a Killer
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.
Release Date:1964-04-01
Department:Writing
Job:Adaptation
Vote Count:5
Mandrin
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
Release Date:1962-12-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Secret File 1413
A detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.
Release Date:1961-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Adaptation
Vote Count:1
The Taste of Violence
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
Release Date:1961-08-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:8
Visa to Hell
The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, he joins his ex-mistress, Mado, a bellowing singer who he asks to help him get to Spain.
Release Date:1959-05-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Fire in the Flesh
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
Release Date:1958-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Dialogue
Vote Count:2
Tonight the Skirts Fly
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
Release Date:1956-06-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Le Crâneur
A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.
Release Date:1955-05-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
Le Socle
The bases, under the occupation, lost their statues. These now anonymous steles rightly intrigue many visitors. Have you ever wondered who is up there? Ask Paul Colline, the most amusing guide in Paris, he will be able to answer you while sparing the goat, the cabbage and your political opinions.
Release Date:1948-01-01
Vote Count:1