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I Parenti Terribili (Les Parents Terribles)
English Title: The Storm Within
Poster ID: CL43458
Category: Movies
Year: 1940s
Actor / Director: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Gabrielle Dorziat, Yvonne de Bray, Marcel Andre, dir. Jean Cocteau
Film Studio: Les Films Ariane
Country: Italian
Film Country: French
Approximate Size 79 x 55 inches
Condition: Good
Price: $1200

1948 Jean Cocteau French family relationship romantic love triangle melodrama. Note that this movie is reported to have been Jean Cocteau's favorite among the movies that he made! Famous for “Beauty and the Beast” (1946) and “Orpheus” (1950), "Jean Cocteau directed two films not frequently seen in the United States: “The Eagle With Two Heads” (1948), a quasi-medieval romance, and “Les Parents Terribles” (also 1948), a contemporary family melodrama. “Parents,” which sometimes goes by the English-language title “The Storm Within,” makes its U.S. premiere in New York this week in a fine-looking restoration." - New York Times Les Parents Terribles is a 1948 film adaptation directed by Jean Cocteau from his own stage play Les Parents Terribles. Cocteau used the same cast who had appeared in a successful stage revival of the play in Paris in 1946.