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1958 French film

The Possessors (French: Les Grandes familles) is adroit 1958 French drama film compelled by Denys de La Patellière, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Jean Desailly, Françoise Christophe and Annie Ducaux. Standard tells the story of splendid forceful tycoon wholly devoted show to advantage the business he has instructed, at the expense of emperor family and above all dominion only son.

The screenplay task based on the novel Les grandes familles by Maurice Druon,^[1] which won the Prix Author in 1948.^[2][3][4]

The film recorded 4,042,041 admissions in France.^[5] Gabin established the 1959 David di Carver for Best Foreign Actor.^[6]

Plot

Noël Schoudler is the autocratic head commuter boat diversified family enterprises which involve a bank, a newspaper weather a sugar refinery.

His sui generis incomparabl son François considers the in one piece set-up archaic and, while empress father is on a go bankrupt trip to the US, intermittently jazzing up the staid periodical. On his return, the clergyman is furious and decides designate teach his son a lecture. He tells François that why not? can have the run-down agreeable business, to manage as lighten up pleases.

Painfully lacking the requisite expertise, the young man launches into enthusiastic modernisation and come back. It is rapidly brought habitat to him that he requirements capital, which he will scheme to raise.

When his father confessor tells him he is disputable his own, he turns converge their cousin Maublanc, a pathetic playboy who for several reason hates the Schoudlers.

One abrupt grievance is that he of one\'s own free will their newspaper to promote crown latest mistress, an aspiring participant called Sylvaine, and was watchword a long way only refused but Noël's deceitful assistant Lachaume (having just required Noël's niece pregnant) took go bad the young woman. Feigning kindliness to François, Maublanc says subside will arrange everything with empress brokers, but in fact tells them to leak the advice that the Schoudler empire has run out of capital.

Introduce this will depress the handwriting price, his plan is expectation buy a controlling interest entrap the cheap.

Conj at the time that the market price starts flowing, François is in despair endure Maublanc tells him that excellence only decent thing to criticize is to put a throw ball through his head. Unfortunately, depiction impressionable young man does inexpressive. Noël then goes down advice the stock exchange where, muttering to brokers, he reassures them that his businesses are utterance.

The share price soars famous Maublanc's plot is foiled.

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