Tit-Cock
Tit-Cock is a Film of Rene Delacroix and Gratien Gélinas produces in 1953. The film was subtitle and diffused in English Canada.
Synopsis
The film tells the mishaps of the soldier French Canadian Tit-Cock a little before the Second world war and on its return of the face. Tit-cock holds its nickname to be of a nervous, funny and disrespectful kind. To be an illegitimate child weighs heavy in his spirit, until it falls in love with Marie-Angel, which promises to him to await it while it will be overseas on the battle field. Tit-cock has in love which awaits it and also a family to which it stuck. Yielding to the pressures of its family, Marie-Angel marries a better party. On its return of war, the news is an hard blow for Tit-Cock. The military chaplain assistance to regain a footing and to start again with living as a recluse.
Price
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1953 : Better film of the year to the Canadian Film Award
- 2000: the International festival of film of Toronto pays homage to film.
Data sheet
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Realization: Rene Delacroix and Gratien Gélinas
- Production: Gratien Gélinas
- Scenario: Gratien Gélinas
- Photography: Akos Farkas and Jose Carried out
- Montage: Roger Garand and Anton Van De Water
- Music: Maurice Blackburn and Morris C. Davis
Distribution
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Amanda Alarie: The mother Desilets
- George Alexander: The commander of the camp
- Fred Barry: The father Desilets
- Juliette Béliveau: Aunt Clara
- Corinne Conley: Turned pink
- Jean Duceppe: Léopold Vermette
- Paul Dupuis: The chaplain
- Gratien Gélinas: Tit-cock
- Clement Latour: Jean-Paul Desilets
- Monique Miller: Marie-angel
- Henri Poitras: Uncle Alcide
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Anecdote
Since 1947, Gratien Gélinas had written the history, but the difficulty of financing film has constrained it to put in scene Tit-Cock for the Théâtre. During three years, there would have been 500 representations of the part Tit-Cock , appreciated criticisms. The incomes of the part made it possible Gélinas to produce itself the film. From February in April 1953, the film would have been seen by approximately 300.000 Québécois spectators and it was also received in Canada in its version subtitled in English.
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