The Grand Maneuver

Les Grandes Manœuvres
The Grand Maneuver
Film poster
Directed byRené Clair
Written byRené Clair (screenplay and dialogue)
Jérôme Géronimi (adaptation)
Jean Marsan (adaptation)
Produced byRené Clair
André Daven
StarringMichèle Morgan
Gérard Philipe
CinematographyRobert Lefebvre
Edited byLouisette Hautecoeur
Denise Natot
Music byGeorges Van Parys
Production
companies
Filmsonor
Rizzoli Film
S.E.C.A.
Cinétel
Distributed byCinédis
Release date
  • 26 October 1955 (1955-10-26)
Running time
107 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$39.8 million[1]
5,302,963 admissions (France)[2]

The Grand Maneuver (French: Les Grandes Manœuvres) is a 1955 French comedy-drama romance film written and directed by René Clair, and starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe. It was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland as Summer Manoeuvres, and in the United States under the title The Grand Maneuver. It is a romantic comedy-drama set in a French provincial town just before World War I, and it was René Clair's first film to be made in colour.

  1. ^ "Les Grandes Maneuvres (1955)- JPBox-Office". Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Box Office Success of Gerard Philipe films". Box Office Story.