This version was presented at the Telluride Film Festival in August 1979, with the frail 89-year old director in attendance.
In 1936, he began cinematic production and finances, and made J'accuse, a new version of the Abel Gance film.
Abel Ferrara | Jessica Abel | Abel Gance | Niels Henrik Abel | Lady May Abel Smith | Cain and Abel | Abel | Abel Seyler | Abel Carlevaro | Walter Abel | Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt | Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat | Henry Abel Smith | Gerry Abel | Charles Abel Buffum | Abel Servien | Abel P. Upshur | Abel Maldonado | Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge | Abel-François Villemain | Abel (film) | Abel Chapman | Ricardo Abel Barbosa Ferreira | Othenio Abel | John Abel Smith | David Abel Russell |
Abel as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward
Following in his father's footsteps, he produced French films & others in Europe and Hollywood: Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance and Le Procès (The Trial) directed by Orson Welles and 1978's Superman starring Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder.
The cinema covered in the book ranges from the silent era to the 1970s, and includes the work of D. W. Griffith, Abel Gance, Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Luis Buñuel, Howard Hawks, Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, Sidney Lumet and Robert Altman.
Gabrio is possibly best recalled for his roles as Jean Valjean in the 1925 Henri Fescourt-directed adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Cesare Borgia in the 1935 Abel Gance-directed biopic Lucrèce Borgia and as Carlos in the 1937 Julien Duvivier-directed gangster film Pépé le Moko, opposite Jean Gabin.
During his study, he performed as an actor and worked with the theater, television and film, assisting directors Michael Cacoyannis, Abel Gance and Med Hondo.
Polyvision was the name given by the French film critic Émile Vuillermoz to a specialized widescreen film format devised exclusively for the filming and projection of Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon.