Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter (1952) on Netflix
NR19521h 26mAdventureMusicRomance
Gérard Morère, a student, thinks a dive near the island of Levezzi reveals where a treasure of Troilus lies. The smuggler Éric sails him there, to the light-keeper's daughter Manina.
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Plot summary
A 25-year-old student in Paris, Gérard Morère attends a lecture about a treasure that Troilus is said to have lost in the sea after the Peloponnesian War. Five years earlier, while diving near Levezzi, an island off Corsica, he had found a fragment of a Phoenician amphora, and he believes he knows where the treasure lies. Friends and an innkeeper put up the money for his search, enough to carry him to Tangiers, where he persuades Éric, a cigarette smuggler, to take him to the island on his boat. Levezzi is the home of Manina, the light-keeper's daughter, who is eighteen.
Cast
- Espanita Cortezas La Franchucha
- Paulette Andrieuxas Une amie de Gérard(Paulette Andrieu)
- Irène Hildaas Franchucha's singing voice
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Manina, the Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter (1952)
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- The film could be shown in the United States even though the Hays Code forbade exposing the navel, because it was admitted as a foreign film.
- Brigitte Bardot's scanty bandeau-top bikini made Manina one of the first films to show a bikini, at a time when the garment was still widely thought immodest.
