For many years, the kindly old wood carver Mr Meacham has been regaling the
children in his neighbourhood with tales about a fearsome dragon who lives
in a nearby forest. Naturally, Meacham's grown-up daughter Garce, a
forester, does not believe a word of these fanciful stories - until the day
she meets a 10-year-old boy named Peter. Having neither home nor family,
he lives in the woods and admits to having befriended a gigantic dragon named
Elliott. To Grace's surprise, the boy's description of the dragon matches
that of the one in her father's tales. Enlisting the help of Natalie,
a sawmill's daughter, Grace sets out to discover where Peter comes from and
whether there is any truth in his fantastic story. Surely dragons are
the province of children's fairytales, not real life...?
It was American film noir and pulp fiction that kick-started the craze for thrillers in 1950s France and made it one of the most popular and enduring genres.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.