The Crab with the Golden Claws (film)

The Crab with the Golden Claws
Directed by	Claude Misonne
Produced by	Wilfried Bouchery
Written by	João B. Michiels
Music by	G. Bethune, A. Ducat
Cinematography	B. Michel, A. Dunil, E. Bernstein
Edited by	A. Leduc
Release dates	11 January 1947 (1947-01-11) (Belgium)
Running time	58 minutes
Country	Belgium
Language	French

The Crab with the Golden Claws (French: Le crabe aux pinces d'or) is a 1947 Belgian stop motion feature film produced by Wilfried Bouchery for Films Claude Misonne and based on the comic book of the same name from The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. This was the first Tintin story to be adapted into a movie and follows the story of the comic almost exactly.

There were only two theatrical screenings of the film; the first at the ABC Cinema on 11 January 1947 for a group of special invited guests, while the other one was shown in public on December 21 of that year, before Bouchery declared bankruptcy and fled to Argentina. All of the equipment was seized and a copy of the film is currently stored at Belgium's Cinémathèque Royale. The copy is available to watch for paying members of the Tintin club.

Plot

Tintin finds himself involved in a mystery of a drowned man, a regular tin of crab meat, and the name of a ship called the Karaboudjan. Upon investigating the ship, Tintin discovers that the shipment of tin cans contains not crab meat, but drugs. After learning about the ship's shady business, Tintin ends up becoming prisoner on the ship which already casted off from the port. The only way for Tintin to escape is by heading for dry land by life boat, and the only person to aid him is the ship's beer guzzling Captain named Haddock who is the only one on board not aware that his crew is trafficking drugs right under his nose.

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A screenshot of the film

Release in DVD

On 14 May 2008, the film was released on PAL DVD in France by Fox Pathe Europa.

See also

• List of animated feature-length films
• List of stop-motion films

References

• Battrick, Oliver. (21 March 2004). "The Crab With the Golden Claws (1947) - the first Tintin movie". Tintinologist.org.

External links

• The Crab with the Golden Claws at IMDb