Black Tights 1961 Drama/Ballet ★★★ [Narrator Maurice Chevalier]

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(61 Minute Version. Full version copies are too blurry)  Black Tights (1-2-3-4 ou Les Collants noirs) is a 1961 French anthology film featuring four ballet segments shot in Technirama and directed by Terence Young.  The dances in the film were abridged versions of ballets created for the stage by the dancer and choreographer Roland Petit, who appears in the three of the four sequences along with his wife, the ballerina Zizi Jeanmaire.   The four independent stories are performed in the form of ballet, interspersed with introductions by Maurice Chevalier. In two of them (Cyrano de Bergerac and Carmen), he periodically explains events as the story progresses.   Credits:  La Croqueuse de diamants:  Zizi Jeanmaire as La Croqueuse de diamants (the Gold Digger)  Dirk Sanders as Le Jeune Homme (the young man who delivers furniture)  Bertie Eckhardt as Le Patron du café (the owner of the café)  Raoul Celada, Gérard Lemaitre, Hans von Manen, Elwin Carel, Claude Jourdan as Les voyous (the hooligans - the gang of pickpockets)   Cyrano de Bergerac:  Moira Shearer as Roxanne  Roland Petit as Cyrano de Bergerac  Georges Reich as Christian de Neuvillette  Josiane Consoli as Lise Ragueneau  Cecile Zissler as La Duègne (the chaperone)  Lucien Mars as Le petit marquis  Leo Lauer as Le mauvais acteur (the bad actor)   Deuil en 24 heures:  Cyd Charisse as L'épouse (the wife who becomes a widow)  Roland Petit as Le séducteur (the seducer who flirts with the wife)  Hans van Manen as Le mari (the husband)  Gérard Lemaitre as Le garçon de café (the café waiter)  Danielle Jossi, Regine Rourry as Les soubrettes (the maids)   Carmen:  Zizi Jeanmaire as Carmen  Roland Petit as Don José  Josette Clavier as La femme brigand (the woman bandit)  Henning Kronstam as Le Toréador (the bull fighter)  Fredbjørn Bjørnsson, Hans von Manen as Les brigands (the bandits)  Regine Rourry, Sally Pierce, France Arnel, Irena Radkitwiecz as Les cigarières (the cigar makers)   Soundtrack:  Carmen  Music by Georges Bizet   La Croqueuse de Diamants  Music by Jean-Michel Damase and Roland Petit   Deuil en 24 Heures  Music by Maurice Thiriet   Cyrano de Bergerac  Music by Marius Constant

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00:00:07Oh, I beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen, I did not know that you were waiting for me.

00:00:13You see, I'm all dressed up because at any time that you look at the show, I want to

00:00:19receive you properly, you see, because it's very important, the presentation.

00:00:25This is Les Halles, that's where all the town comes for marketing, you see, and what is nice

00:00:35in Les Halles, when it's about empty, as it is now, you know, there is always a flower

00:00:40vendor to leave you a little buttonhole, that's the gentleness of the people of the street.

00:00:48Now, ladies and gentlemen, you're going to see and hear a fairy story, yes, the legend

00:00:58of the enchanted banquette, a banquette is a long sofa, you see, a banquette that the owner

00:01:06of this little cafe behind has been dreaming to have all his life, a beautiful red plush

00:01:14banquet, you see, like the ones at Maxime, you see, but the drama is that when they bring

00:01:21that banquette, that sofa, it's too long, it's too long for the little cafe, and that is very

00:01:29sad, but that banquette will allow you to meet a very, very attractive girl who, like every

00:01:38other girl, likes diamonds, you see, but she doesn't like diamonds to wear, no, no, she

00:01:45likes diamonds to eat, yes, you have already seen a woman eating diamonds, oh, it's cute,

00:01:56it's cute, it's a bit expensive, but it's very cute, and after that, you will see that that

00:02:01girl is also a gang leader, oh, but don't, don't be upset because I told you, it's a fairy

00:02:10story, so now, as every fairy story, it starts once upon a time.

00:02:45Good morning, yes, no, it's beautiful.

00:03:01I'm happy to be here.

00:03:09THE END

00:03:59WHISTLE BLOWS

00:04:06He has a lot to sell it.

00:04:08It's a lot to sell it.

00:04:11If I would sell it, it would be a good one.

00:04:17If I would sell it, it would be expensive to know the taste of a client.

00:04:21Faut choisir sa marchandise et marcher, et marcher, et marcher avec son temps.

00:04:38Dans un cinéma affecte, mes esquimaux ont fondu.

00:04:44L'autre avec ses cacahuètes, les grillettes en soufflant dessus.

00:04:51Faut choisir sa marchandise, connaître le bout du client.

00:04:55Faut choisir sa marchandise et marcher, et marcher, et marcher avec son temps.

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