Lafayette
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“The shot heard round the world thunders across the screen !”
The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
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Cast
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Pascale Audret
Adrienne de La Fayette
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Jack Hawkins
General Cornwallis
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Lawrence of Arabia
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Michel Le Royer
La Fayette
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Les Confidences érotiques d'un lit trop accueillant
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Folco Lulli
Le Boursier
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The Wages of Fear
For Love and Gold
Wolfgang Preiss
Baron Kalb
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The Train
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Renée Saint-Cyr
Duchess of Ayen
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The Bottom Line
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Vittorio De Sica
Bancroft
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Bread, Love and Dreams
General Della Rovere
Orson Welles
Benjamin Franklin
Known for
Citizen Kane
Touch of Evil
Liselotte Pulver
Marie Antoinette
Known for
One, Two, Three
The Nun
Edmund Purdom
Silas Deane
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Who's Afraid of Dracula?
The Egyptian
Georges Rivière
Vergennes
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Castle of Blood
Rosanna Schiaffino
Countess of Simiane
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
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Jean Dréville Director · Jean Bernard-Luc Screenplay Suzy Prim Screenplay
United States release April 10, 1963 · Produced in France, Italy · Languages English, French
Production
Les Films Copernic
Production
Cosmos
Production
France · Italy
Produced in
Languages
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
France · February 1, 1962
Premiere · Ocean premiere aboard ocean liner France in Le Havre.
France · February 16, 1962
Theatrical
United States · April 10, 1963
Theatrical
Austria
October 1, 1966 · Theatrical
France
February 8, 1962 · Premiere · World premiere at Paris Opera, Paris.
Germany
August 26, 1966 · Theatrical · West Germany
Italy
September 28, 1962 · Theatrical
Mexico
October 8, 1964 · Theatrical
Portugal
October 9, 1962 · Theatrical
Romania
August 1, 1963 · Theatrical
Spain
May 21, 1962 · Limited theatrical · Madrid
September 10, 1962 · Limited theatrical · Barcelona
November 13, 1962 · Limited theatrical · Granada
United Kingdom
January 10, 1965 · Limited theatrical · London
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