Endless Horizons

{{short description|1953 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Endless Horizons | image = Endless Horizons.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = Jean Dréville | producer = David Armand Medioni | writer = Raymond Caillava | starring = Giselle Pascal <br> Jean Chevrier <br> René Blancard | music = René Cloërec | cinematography = André Bac | editing = Gabriel Rongier | studio = Société Nouvelle des Films Dispa | distributor = Société Nouvelle des Films Dispa | released = {{film date|1953|7|3|df=yes}} | runtime = 104 minutes | country = France | language = French }}

'''''Endless Horizons''''' (French: '''''Horizons sans fin''''') is a 1953 French drama film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Giselle Pascal, Jean Chevrier and René Blancard. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3907/year/1953.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Endless Horizons |accessdate=22 January 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822154208/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3907/year/1953.html |archivedate=22 August 2011}}</ref><ref>Bessy & Chirat p.186</ref> Location shooting took place at the Enghien Moisselles Airfield. The film's sets were designed by the art director Raymond Gabutti.

==Synopsis== The film is a biopic of the pioneering French aviator Hélène Boucher who broke a number of woman's flying records before her death in a crash in 1934.

==Cast== * Giselle Pascal as Hélène Boucher * Jean Chevrier as André Danet * René Blancard as René Gaudin * Paul Frankeur as Soupape * Maurice Ronet as Marc Caussade * Marie-France Planeze as Geneviève Gaudin * Hubert de Malet as Brunel * Christiane Barry as Jacqueline * Jacques Bernard as Pigeon * Lisette Lebon as Jacquotte * Pierre Trabaud as Pierre Castel * Marcel André as Dusmesnil * Micheline Gary * Guy Derlan as Fougères * François Joux as 1er actionnaire * Marcel Josz as 2ème actionnaire

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== Bibliography == * Bessy, Maurice; Chirat, Raymond. ''Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955''. Pygmalion, 1989.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0097526|title=Endless Horizons}}

Category:1953 films Category:1953 drama films Category:1950s biographical drama films Category:French biographical drama films Category:1953 French-language films Category:Films directed by Jean Dréville Category:French aviation films Category:French black-and-white films Category:Films set in 1932 Category:Films set in 1933 Category:Films set in 1934 Category:Biographical films about aviators Category:1953 French films Category:Films scored by René Cloërec Category:French-language biographical drama films