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Fortune Favors the Brave (film)

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Country
  
France

Director
  
Georges Melies

Language
  
Silent

Release date
  
1908

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Fortune Favors the Brave (French: Le Génie des cloches ou le Fils du sonneur, literally "The Genie of the Bells, or the Bellringer's Son") was a 1908 French silent fantasy film directed by Georges Méliès.

Contents

Every story fortune favors the brave


Plot

A young boy's adventure takes him to the domain of the Genie of the Cathedral Bell, where he finds a fortune to enrich his family.

Production

A surviving production still reveals that Méliès appears in the film as a gnome; his son, André Méliès, plays the young boy.

Release and reception

The film was released by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1394–1407 in its catalogues.

The New York Mirror gave the film a brief review after its American release in December 1909, saying that it "will please the children, who will not be too critical of the stage management."

The film is currently presumed lost.

References

Fortune Favors the Brave (film) Wikipedia
Fortune Favors the Brave (film) IMDb