The Girl in the Bikini (1952)

Manina, la fille sans voiles (original title)

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1h 26min
Adventure, Music
24 Oct 1958 (USA)
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Gérard, a young student, discovers a fragment from a Phoenician amphora in Corsica. Several years later he sets off on a smuggling boat, looking for the treasure he thinks he has found. When he get back to island, he falls in love.

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Willy Rozier

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Willy Rozier

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A Parisian student, Gérard Morere, sets off to recover a lost treasure contained in a sunken Phoenician ship near an island off the coast of Corsica. With funds supplied by his fellow students, Gérard convinces a smuggler named Eric (played by Jess Franco favourite Howard Vernon) to be his transportation. Whilst diving for the treasure off the picturesque Lavezzi islands, Gérard gets to know Manina (Brigitte Bardot), the attractive daughter of the local lighthouse keeper...

Notable for being one of Bardot's first on-screen performances, five years before her appearance in And God Created Woman launched her to super-stardom, Manina, The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter is presented here for the first time ever on Blu-ray.

Still of Brigitte Bardot in The Girl in the Bikini (1952)

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Cast

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	Brigitte Bardot	...	Manina
	Jean-François Calvé	...	Gérard Morère
	Howard Vernon	...	Éric
	Espanita Cortez	...	La Franchucha
	Raymond Cordy	...	Francis - le barman
	Paulette Andrieux	...	Une amie de Gérard (as Paulette Andrieu)
	Henry Djanik	...	Marcel - le second d'Éric (as H. Djanik)
	Jean Droze	...	Un copain de Gérard (as Droze)
	Nadine Tallier	...	Mathilda (as N. Tallier)
	Maurice Bénard	...	Le professeur Berthet (as Bénard)
	Robert Arnoux	...	M. Moulon / Purzel
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Irène Hilda	...	Franchucha's singing voice
	Danielle Verne	...	La femme qui se bagarre

Directed by

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Willy Rozier

Written by

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Willy Rozier

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Produced by

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Willy Rozier

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Music by

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Marcel Bianchi	...	(as M. Bianchi)
Jean Yatove

Cinematography by

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Michel Rocca

Editing by

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Suzanne Baron

Production Management

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René Jaspard	...	production manager (as Jaspard)
Charles Kerdax	...	unit manager (as Kerdax)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Louis Pascal

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assistant director (as L. Pascal)

Sound Department

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André Le Baut

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sound (as Le Bau)

Camera and Electrical Department

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Jacques De St. Girons	...	assistant camera (as De St. Girons)
Léo Mirkine	...	still photographer
Charles-Henri Montel	...	camera operator (as Montel)
Michel Rocca	...	underwater photography
Willy Rozier	...	underwater photography

Music Department

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Irène Hilda	...	playback singer / singer: French song
Claude Robin	...	music / singer: Corsican songs
Maria Vincent	...	playback singer / singer: Corsican songs

Additional Crew

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Castel	...	assistant
Simone Pêche	...	script (as S. Peche)
Yvonne Toumayeff	...	administrator

Production Companies

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Sport-Films

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Cocinor (1952) (France) (theatrical)
Atos Films (1953) (Belgium) (theatrical)
Atlantis Films (II) (1958) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
Gala Film Distributors (1958) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
Anglo Film (1959) (Sweden) (theatrical)
C.E.D. Films (1964) (Belgium) (theatrical) (reissue)
Synkronized (SKD) [us] (2004) (United States) (DVD)
Eureka Entertainment (2017) (United Kingdom) (Blu-ray)
Les Films Hustaix (France) (theatrical) (re-release)

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Organisation Constantin Evanghelon (recording company)

Storyline

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Plot Summary	When a 25-year old Parisian student, Gérard Morere, hears a lecture about a treasure Troilus lost at sea after the Peloponnesian War, he thinks he knows where it is, thanks to a discovery he made five years before when diving near the island of Levezzi. He gets friends and an innkeeper to invest in his dream, enough to get him to Tangiers where he convinces a cigarette smuggler, Erick, to take him to the island. There he finds Manina, the light-keeper's daughter, 18 and beautiful and pure. Erick thinks Gérard may have conned him, but Gérard's belief in the treasure compels patience. Dives by day and romance at night. Can Gérard's romantic ideas survive in the harsh rocks of Levezzi? Written by Plot Summary
Plot Keywords	bare-chested-male young treasure nipple breast See All (14) »
Taglines	A Revealing Episode on a Lonely Island! See more »
Genres	Adventure Music Romance
Parents Guide	View content advisory »
Certification	Finland:K-12 France:Tous publics Japan:G Norway:A (recommended rating) Norway:16 (cinema rating) Sweden:Btl United Kingdom:U West Germany:18 (nf)

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Also Known As	The Girl in the Bikini (United States) The Lighthouse-Keeper's Daughter (United Kingdom) Manina, la chica de la isla (Spain) La chica del bikini (Venezuela) Piken fra havet (Norway) See more »
Runtime	86 min
Country	France
Language	French Spanish
Color	Black and White
Aspect Ratio	1.37 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix	Mono (Western Electric)
Filming Locations	Iles Lavezzi, Corse du Sud, Corsica, France See more »

Did You Know?

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Trivia	Top-billed Brigitte Bardot does not appear in the first 40 minutes of the film. See more »
Movie Connections	Featured in My Itsy Bitsy Bikini (1996). See more »
Soundtracks	Franchucha See more »

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