It is not just that... plus - a question to Jim Willis and others from Europe - Victor Khomenko

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It is not just that... plus - a question to Jim Willis and others from Europe

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Posted by Victor Khomenko on May 29, 2001 at 14:18:20

In Reply to: Looks like we have a fan of Gabin here... posted by Jeff Lessard on May 29, 2001 at 12:35:40:

Liking Jean Gabin is easy. After all, he is perhaps one of twenty or so of the greatest actors who have ever lived. We grew up with people like him, Michel Simon (who can forget "L' Atalante"?), Bourvil, Fernandel, etc. We loved them all the way to the point of coming to America. Then it all came to a holt.

The strange thing is how hard it is to obrain those movies here. Believe me, I don't have any problem with the fact that I can drive five minutes and rent every piece of junk that Harrison Ford or Kevin Kostner ever did, for this is their playground. But to not be able to get ANY Gabin or Fernandel movies (outside of New York, that is) really pisses me off in a major way.

Now, here is my question to Jim and anyone else living in Europe. Is the situation pretty much reversed there? Say, I am in Paris and have a burning desire to see a film with Jean Arthur - am I SOL?

Well, forget Jean, as nice as she was, but how about Spencer Tracy? How many of his films would I find in an average "good" rental place in Paris?

Staying with France for a moment (such an easy target... shooting fish in the barrel...), what kind of selection of German films would be there? Swedish? Japanese? Italian? Russian? Polish? English? Chinese?

Of foreign (to France) films, which country would be better represented, and which would not get any light of day at all? I don't care what reason...

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Follow Ups Full Thread

Topic - A weekend full of Gabin - Victor Khomenko 08:33:56 05/29/01 (10)

Looks like we have a fan of Gabin here... - Jeff Lessard 12:35:40 05/29/01 (9)

Wrote down "Le TatouÃ©", will look. - Victor Khomenko 14:23:23 05/29/01 (4)

By the way Gabin also had a singing career... - Jeff Lessard 20:55:25 05/30/01 (3)

Now that you mentioned it... - Victor Khomenko 22:35:29 05/30/01 (2)

Gabin, Bourvil, Montand... - Jeff Lessard 17:08:09 05/31/01 (1)

How unfair! - Victor Khomenko 17:31:18 05/31/01 (0)

It is not just that... plus - a question to Jim Willis and others from Europe - Victor Khomenko 14:18:20 05/29/01 (3)

I do not know for the rest of the world... - Jeff Lessard 11:06:44 05/30/01 (0)

Re: An answer... - Jim Willis 10:16:02 05/30/01 (0)

Re: It is not just that... plus - a question to Jim Willis and others from Europe - Jeff Starrs 08:05:04 05/30/01 (0)

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It is not just that... plus - a question to Jim Willis and others from Europe - Victor Khomenko 14:18:20 05/29/01 (3)

I do not know for the rest of the world... - Jeff Lessard 11:06:44 05/30/01 (0)

Re: An answer... - Jim Willis 10:16:02 05/30/01 (0)

Re: It is not just that... plus - a question to Jim Willis and others from Europe - Jeff Starrs 08:05:04 05/30/01 (0)

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