1:04:01
and he's signed to do
a Simenon, a Maigret.
1:04:05
Give him my two films then.
1:04:08
He doesn't have that French light touch.
1:04:12
You have it. I want to make
lots of good films.
1:04:15
Better than the Americans.
So I need good scripts,
1:04:19
- Hence, good scriptwriters.
- Take your pick.
1:04:22
There's nothing to pick.
And you know why?
1:04:25
No more Jews. Not in Germany,
not here. The best writers
1:04:30
were Jews. Natanson, Andre Lang,
Pierre Wolff. All gone!
1:04:34
If you know any, send them over.
1:04:38
Mr. Greven,
1:04:40
even if I knew any, think I'd tell you?
1:04:43
Know what you risk
talking to me like that?
1:04:45
I could send you to Germany tomorrow.
1:04:48
Sure... If I were a laborer
1:04:51
or maitre d', I'd answer differently.
1:04:54
But we're 2 bourgeois. I'm poorer,
but still a bourgeois.
1:04:57
We're two of a kind.
1:05:02
I have a Jew at Continental.
And communist, too.
1:05:05
I know it. He doesn't know I know.
1:05:09
Just one film, Aurenche. A comedy.
1:05:12
You know how to write gags.
1:05:14
I'll have Fernandel in 3 months.
He'll direct.
1:05:18
It's called Adrien.
A Jean de Letraz hit.
1:05:21
But those kind of plays...
1:05:25
Just what I loathe.
1:05:28
As for Fernandel...
1:05:30
He's a gag factory, a walking gag.
1:05:34
Where would I fit in? I'd ruin it all.
1:05:58
Rene!