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Not Three

1964 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ24885173 ↗
Source-derived summary

Not Three (French: Le pas de trois) is a 1964 French-Portuguese comedy film directed by Alain Bornet and starring Clara D'Ovar, Annie Fratellini and Jean-Loup Reynold.

Cast

Clara D'Ovar as Duke's daughter

Annie Fratellini as Duke's waitress

Jean-Loup Reynold as Chantagista / Blackmailer

Costinha as Duke's servant

Madeleine Delavaivre as Duchess

Jean Tissier as Duke

References

Bibliography

José de Matos Cruz. Cinema português: o dia do século. Grifo, 1998.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Not Three” is 1964 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Three and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964. For this dossier, Three and film is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “1964 film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24885173. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Not Three” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.