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| Mauvaise Graine | |
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| Directed by | Billy Wilder Alexander Esway |
| Written by | Billy Wilder Jan Lustig Max Colpet Claude-André Puget |
| Produced by | Edouard Corniglion-Molonier Georges Bernier |
| Starring | Danielle Darrieux |
| Cinematography | Paul Cotteret Maurice Delattre |
| Edited by | Therese Sautereau |
| Music by | Franz Waxman Allan Gray |
Production company | Compagnie Nouvelle Commerciale |
| Distributed by | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
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Running time | 77 minutes[1] |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Mauvaise Graine (English: Bad Seed) is a 1934 French action comedy directed by Billy Wilder (in his directorial debut) and Alexander Esway. The screenplay by Wilder, Jan Lustig, Max Colpet, and Claude-André Puget focuses on a wealthy young playboy who becomes involved with a gang of car thieves.[2][3]
Although Wilder and Esway shared the directing credit, in later years leading lady Danielle Darrieux recalled Esway had been involved with the project in some capacity but clearly remembered she had never seen him on the set.[4] It was remade in Britain in 1936 as the film The First Offence starring John Mills and Lilli Palmer. It was later remade in France as the 1950 film The Unexpected Voyager.
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- ^ "MAUVAISE GRAINE (1934)". BFI. Archived from the original on October 17, 2017.
- ^ "Mauvaise Graine (1934) - Alexander Esway, Billy Wilder | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via www.allmovie.com.
- ^ Chandler, Charlotte, Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster 2002. ISBN 0-7432-1709-8, pp. 60-68