Fanfan la Tulipe, trailer

Legendary French star Gérard Philipe swashbuckled his way into film history as the peasant soldier Fanfan in ChristianJaques devilmaycare romantic actioncomedy. In eighteenthcentury France, Fanfan joins King Louis XVs army to avoid a forced marriage to a local lass and gets himself into close scrapes and tight squeezes with Gina Lollobrigidas impostor fortuneteller, Adeline, on his way to fighting in the Seven Years War. Filled to the brim with dazzling stunts and randy innuendo, Fanfan la Tulipe, which won the best director prize at Cannes and was a smash hit upon its initial release, remains one of Frances alltime most beloved films. directed by ChristianJaque, 1952