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Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)

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Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)

Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 5900 kbps | 2.6Gb
Audio: French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English (Burnt In)
58 minutes | UK | Short, War

In 1944 Hitchcock made two British shorts - Bon Voyage and Adventure Malgache - for the Ministry of Information; they were shot in French and intended exclusively as propaganda for liberated French territories.

SYNOPSIS:
Made between his 1943 "Lifeboat" and 1945 "Spellbound," these wartime shorts – filmed by a graduate of the psychologically murky German expressionist era – display the British filmmaker's adroit manipulation of suspense and his dark sense of irony.But the various French factions the films were supposed to serve bickered over creative details. Eventually, the films were deemed too "inflammatory" and shelved until recently.

The 26-minute "Bon Voyage," made in 1944, is the superior of the two, a deft little twisteroo about wartime treachery. A Scottish Royal Air Force pilot (John Blythe) has successfully escaped German-occupied France with the help of a Polish officer and the French Resistance. Interviewed upon his return to Britain by a French espionage officer, he's asked to relate his escape.

"Aventure Malgache" (a k a 'Madagascar Landing'), is a 31-minute piece made in the same year. The outbreak of war and the surrender of France under Petain forces the French community in Madagascar to break up into political factions – some for fighting the Nazis, others for giving in.

At this point, Hitchcock was intentionally ribbing the real-life French infighting over these films. "Malgache," even more so than "Bon Voyage," was too satirically close to the mark, it seems. No wonder they waited 50 years.

Aventure malgache (1944)
32 minutes | UK | Short, War

The Moliere players are in their dressing room, getting ready to go on set. One actor mentions to another that his face reminds him of an opportunist turncoat he knew when he was in the Resistance. He then relates the adventure that he had in the Resistance, running an illegal radio station and dodging the Nazis.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Paul Bonifas, Paul Clarus, Jean Dattas, Andre Frere, Guy Le Feuvre, Paulette Preney

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Bon Voyage (1944)
26 minutes | UK | Short, War

A young Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German agent.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: John Blythe

IMDb

Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)

Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)

Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)

Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)

Bon Voyage (1944) + Adventure Malgache (1944)