Captain Mollenard
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Captain Mollenard is an uncouth, almost piratical, commander of a merchant ship sailing out of Dunkirk. When the ship's owners discover that Mollenard has been selling arms on his own account, they decided to suspend him for six months.
Hatred: Directed by Robert Siodmak. With Harry Baur, Albert Préjean, Gabrielle Dorziat, Gina Manès. Justin Mollenard is a sailor and arms smuggler who does not support the hypocrisy of society. He has a wife in Dunkirk who reproaches him the fact of having neglected the family for many years.
Robert Siodmak’s earliest feature to qualify as noir is undoubtedly 1938’s Mollenard (US: Hatred), a strange film about one man’s rebellion against the normal order of life. Starring Harry Baur as the title character, the captain of a merchant ship deployed to the Far East which he’s using illegally to smuggle and sell arms, the film ...
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk.
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk.
Apr 14, 2012 · So long as the action unfolds in Shanghai, where it is set for roughly two-thirds of its length, Mollenard—a.k.a. Capitaine Corsaire—is one of Robert Siodmak’s most gripping, beautiful and atmospheric films.
Aug 10, 2016 · A darkling tale of munitions profiteering (and treacheries of the patriotic and marital sort), Mollenard moves between the port town of Dunkirk and the “exotic” mysteries of the Far East. Leftist sympathizers of France’s Popular Front found common cause in Siodmak’s antiheroic portrait of a cynical opportunist on the eve of war.
