Film · Drama
They Were Five (1952)
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.
- Director
- Jack Pinoteau
- Writers
- Pierre Laroche, Michel Jourdan
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Release date
- January 23, 1952
- Original title
- Ils étaient cinq
Cast
Jean CarmetJean - le postier
Jean GavenMarcel - le boxeur
Michel JourdanRoger Courtois - l'acteur
Jean-Claude PascalPhilippe
Arlette MerryValérie - La soeur de Roger, chanteuse de cabaret
Louis de FunèsAlbert, le régisseur- François MartinAndré Lamberay
Nicole BesnardSimone - l'amie de Jean- Irène HildaFabienne Dorée
Marcel AndréLe commissaire
Robert DalbanDufau - le manager- Paul Mesnier
Jean Ozenne
Charles Fawcett
André VersiniSerge - l'imprésario de Roger
Jean MarchatFredo - un patron de cabaret louche
Georgette Anys(uncredited)
Roland Carey(uncredited)
René Hell(uncredited)
Guy Henry(uncredited)
