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Le Miracle des loups
Also known as The Miracle of the Wolves in the USA : {The Miracle of Wolves}
(1924) France
B&W : Nine reels
Directed by Raymond Bernard
Cast: Charles Dullin [Louis XI], Romuald Joubé [Robert Cottereau], Yvonne Sergyl [Jeanne Fouquet], Gaston Modot [Count du Lau], Fernand Mailly [Philippe the Good], Armand Bernard [Bische], Ernest Maupain [Fouquet], Philippe Hériat [Tristan, the hermit], Pierre Hot [God, in the mystery play], Albert Préjean [the Devil, in the mystery play; and a henchman of Count du Lau]
Société des Films Historiques production. / Screenplay by André-Paul Antoine, from the novel Le miracle des loups by Henri Dupuy-Mazuel. Set design by Robert Mallet-Stevens and Jean Perrier. Costume design by Job [Jacques Onfroy de Bréville]. Wolves trained by Louis MacDonald (of the Amar Circus). Assistant director, Jean Hémard. Cinematography by Maurice Forster, Marc Bujard and Robert Batton. Music score by Henri Rabaud. / Premiere at the Paris Opera in Paris, France, on 13 November 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The first film to use the city of Carcassonne as a medieval set (here standing in for Beauvais). The first motion picture to premiere at the Paris Opera. The film premiered in the USA at the Criterion Theatre in New York, New York, on 23 February 1925. The film was restored by the Archives Française du Film (CNC) and Gaumont.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Archives Française du Film (CNC) film archive [35mm negative, 35mm positives].
Current rights holder: (unknown) [France]; Public domain [USA].
Keywords: France: Beauvais, Carcassonne - Royalty: Kings: King Louis XI of France
Listing updated: 4 November 2011.
References: Bardèche-History p. 156; Brownlow-Parade pp. 516, 521; Everson-American pp. 65, 188; FilmYearBook-1926 p. 47, 553; Shipman-Cinema p. 85, Sinyard-Silent p. 8 : with additional information provided by Lenny Borger.
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