Jean L'Hôte

Jean L'Hôte

1929-01-13
56 (1985-04-28)
Migneville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Jean L'Hôte was a French screenwriter and film director. He worked on 21 films between 1958 and 1985.

Migneville, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Jean L'Hôte was a French screenwriter and film director. He worked on 21 films between 1958 and 1985.

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Mon Oncle 1958 (7.42)

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
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The Counterfeit Constable 1964 (5.6)

An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
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Public School 1965 (5)

A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.