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In the movie, Belizaire Breaux (played by Armand Assante, in what many say is his best performance) must save a friend’s life, win a woman’s heart, outfox a crooked sheriff, stop marauding vigilantes, expose an evil villain, and rescue the inheritance of three orphaned children in a picture that blends suspense and humor. Called “a wonderful movie, two thumbs up” by Siskel and Ebert and credited with “the looniest hanging scene ever” by the Hollywood Reporter. 35mm, 103 minutes.

Official selection: Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Munich, Moscow, Torino

Spirit award Nominee

“Pitre offers an endless chain of surprises, as perfectly woven together as any spider’s web…  Pitre leads his audience through this chilling tragedy, set within a tender romance, set within a ludicrous comedy…  Belizaire knocked me out of the chair…   A masterpiece.”     San Francisco Chronicle

“With the caginess of Br’er Rabbit…  In good folk style, far-fetched but triumphant, and leaves some haunting memories.”  New York Times

“Beautiful and exhilarating…  A southern Witness.”  L.A. Weekly

“Period-piece innocence underscored by powerful sexual tension…  A magnetic, starmaking performance by Armand Assante”     Dallas Times-Herald

“Superbly paced…  Rich and often explosive.”     Hollywood Reporter

“One of the looniest hanging scenes ever committed to film!”    Variety

Cote Blanche Feature Films presents Armand Assante, Gail Youngs, and Michael Schoeffling in Belizaire the Cajun. Starring Robert Duvall, Will Patton, Stephen McHattie, Nancy Barrett, and Loulan Pitre. Music by Michael Doucet & Howard Shore. Editor Paul Trejo, Camera Richard Bowen. Produced by Allan Durand, Sandra Schulberg, and Glen Pitre. Written and directed by Glen Pitre.

Three women in a foreign land. They hardly speak the language, don’t know the customs, but vow to be good wives to young men they barely know. The year is 1946. The foreign land is the United States.

In WWII, during brief encounters and stolen moments, 6,500 American recruits married French girls even while fighting their way to Paris and beyond. An overwhelmed U.S. Army set up “cigarette” camps — Camp Chesterfield, Camp Lucky Strike — to “Americanize” the brides before shipping them to the care of in-laws they’d never met.

Cigarettes & Nylons follows three young women through hope and disillusionment, love and heartbreak, to a time when even as the world was burning, young hearts were set aflame.

A Maha Films production
in association with
Cote Blanche Productions, New Orleans

Executive Producers
Michelle Benoit & Glen Pitre
Produced by
Denis Poncet & Jean Xavier de l’Estrade
Written by
Jean-Claude Grumberg & Fabrice Cazeneuve
Directed by
Fabrice Cazeneuve

Director of Photography
Pierre Milon
Production Designer
Denis Renault & Monroe Kelly
Wardrobe Designer
Florence Sadaune & Linda Gardar
Production Manager
Olivier Rechou & Sandra Stokes

Starring Adélaide Leroux (star of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winning Flandres), Salomé Stévenin, Mélodie Richard, Jean-Baptiste Fonck, Billy Slaughter, Jessie Terrebone, James Yeargin, Michael Aaron Santos, Louis Hearthum, Geraldine Singer, Morrey McElroy, Sol Gothard, Catherine Lasperches, & Francette Vinet-Izard

Filmed in France and Louisiana.

Released as The Scoundrel’s Wife in theaters nationwide, the film was retitled Home Front for DVD.

As young American men leave to fight during World War II, German P.O.W.s arrive to work in the Louisiana sugarcane fields. Night after night, explosions light up the sky as enemy U-boats just offshore torpedo American merchant ships. Against the real dangers and explosive paranoia of this besieged home front, a fisherman’s beautiful widow (Academy Award-winner TATUM O’NEAL) and a mysterious European doctor (JULIAN SANDS) somehow find love.

But even as they rescue casualties from the sinking ships, suspicions swirl around them while the rogue of a village priest (TIM CURRY) decides to quash their budding romance. When a Coast Guard Ensign (Band of Brothers’ EION BAILEY) is commanded to unmask anyone who might be helping the enemy submarines, his efforts pit him against the couple as he seduces the woman’s daughter (Mean Girls’ LACEY CHABERT) and forces the final confrontation that will unmask all their secrets.

35mm, 101 minutes.

Best Feature Film, San Diego Film Fest

“Smart and saucy… A delight… Under Pitre’s sure hand Scoundrel’s Wife is a terrific blend of textures, characters, and personal drama, all laced with down home humor and local color.”     Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter

“Awesome… Near perfect… Vivid and frightening”     filethirteen.com

“Faultless performances… Chillingly fine filmmaking.”     Patricia Gannon, The Times

“Full of intrigue and suspense… Tatum O’Neal is back!”    Rex Reed, New York Observer

“Incredible… Never a dull moment… I loved this movie!”     Fox TV 7, Austin

“Fascinating… Grabbed me from the get-go.”     Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune

“First rate… Richly evocative.”      Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Strong, unusual drama with lots of Cajun color, and all the better for it… a story never before told”     Bob Green, Honolulu Weekly

Heritage Entertainment, Advantage Partners Pictures, Circle In The Sky, & Cote Blanche Productions present a film by Glen Pitre. Tatum O’Neal, Julian Sands, and Tim Curry. The Scoundrel’s Wife. Eion Bailey, Rudolf Martin, Patrick McCullough, and Lacey Chabert. Casting Sharon Howard-Field. Score Ernest Troost. Costumes Astrid Brucker. Editor Peter Ellis. Production designer Kelly Curley. Director of photography Uta Briesewitz. Co-producer Michael Arata. Executive producers Michael Donaldson and Steven Stull. Written by Michelle Benoit & Glen Pitre. Produced by Peggy Rajski and Jerry Daigle. Directed by Glen Pitre.

($8.50 a Barrel!)

Moviegoers were caught from the first scene… Scenes on the bayou are beautiful and dramatic.
- New Orleans Times-Picayune

Two men, one 82, the other 93, recount what occurred in the fishing village of Golden Meadow, Louisiana, during two weeks of the summer of 1938. As leaders of opposing sides of “the Shrimp War,” each tells the truth of what happened — his truth — and thus each inevitably contradicts the other. Choosing sides once again, their neighbors and relatives don period costumes, drive vintage cars, and ride ‘30s era boats to recreate two distinctly different versions of the battles and intrigue, as the audience goes along on the fascinating transition of regional history into local myth. An award-winning film. In Cajun French with English subtitles.

“Pitre has arrived at a unique form of filmmaking marked by an authenticity of cultural character.”     Southwest Media Review

During an 1897 epidemic, soldiers guard a quarantined Cajun village, but fisherman Alcide Boudreaux knows the back bayous well enough to evade them. Returning to his family, he himself falls sick with the fever. So begins a test of wits as his wife, his mother, and his children must all do their part to hide his presence from quarantine officials, leading up to an explosive confrontation. To the authorities, interning fever victims means stopping the spread of the epidemic. To the Boudreaux family, it means certain death for Alcide. An award-winning drama. Black and white. In Cajun French with English subtitles.

Grand Prize Winner, Sinking Creek (now Nashville International) Film Fest

Yellow Fever is a milestone in the Louisiana French Renaissance.
- Barry Ancelet

“If your knowledge of Cajun culture is limited, here’s the chance to considerably broaden your outlook.”     The Houston Post

The Civil War is over and Reese Paxton (Eric Braeden, The Young and the Restless) just wants a quiet life with his wife, Angelique (Carol Alt), and their young son, Gabe (Brady Hender). But in this South, it takes more than losing a war for some men to admit defeat. Billy Duke (James Patrick Stewart, CSI), over privileged son of Judge Duke (Academy Award winner George Kennedy), attempts to show a group of plantation workers, former slaves, that just because the law makes it illegal to have a piece of paper that says so, it doesn’t mean you can’t own a man. When Reese and Billy clash, Reese finds himself sent away for life, framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Reese must find a way to escape so he can return to the town that betrayed him to let them see what evil men do when good men let them. Reese Paxton is The Man Who Came Back. Also starring Armand Assante (The Mambo Kings, Belizaire the Cajun), Billy Zane (Titanic), Sean Young (Bladerunner, No Way Out, Ace Ventura), Peter Jason (Deadwood), Ken Norton (Mandingo), and Jennifer O’Dell (General Hospital).

“If you are looking for a film that will dazzle, entertain, make you cry and even angry, The Man Who Came Back gives you all that plus a lot more…  The pulse pounding film never slows down until an ending that left grown men sobbing with tears in the theater.”     Los Angeles Canyon News

“Gritty, emotionally-powerful…  I could not take my eyes off the screen…  The Man Who Came Back is so intense, it sticks with you for days.”     PopSyndicate.com

“Glen Pitre has helped to reclaim the American western.”     HomeTheaterInfo.com

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