Jacques Ledru, alias Martin Schmidt
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La vierge du Rhin. Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.
Overview. Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company.
A film review of La Vierge du Rhin (1953), aka Rhine Virgin, directed by Gilles Grangier, featuring Jean Gabin, Elina Labourdette, Andree Clement
A mysterious army officer (Jean Gabin), thought to be dead during WWII, returns incognito to his home to wreak revenge on his two-timing wife (Elina Labourdette) and her lover who took over his business - running transport barges up and down the river Rhine - and are hell…
One year before the film widely seen as his career comeback, Jacques Becker’s Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954), Jean Gabin starred in Gilles Grangier’s relatively low-key La vierge du Rhin (US: Rhine Virgin) as Jacques Ledru, assumed killed during the war, who returns to Strasbourg to find that his wife Geneviève (a deliciously manipulative ...
Ex-POW Jacques (Jean Gabin), bitter and disillusioned, hopes to wreak vengeance on a former friend who'd betrayed him to the Nazis. He is given a new lease on life through his romance with Marie (Nadia Gray), a girl who spends her life on the barge.
Rhine Virgin (1953) Unrated Drama/Crime · 1h 22m · 11/13/1953
