Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (1934)

Directed by

Max Nosseck

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Buster Keaton plays two characters in this French comedy, a naive actor and an American gangster. The story follows the mix-ups between these two men. Keaton breaks his famous deadpan expression with a smile at the end of the film.

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What happens

Le Roi des Champs-Élysées is a 1934 French comedy starring Buster Keaton. This French-made film has Keaton playing two roles, as an aspiring actor, and as an American gangster. A closing gag has the typically deadpan Keaton breaking out into a big grin after being kissed. Almost all of Keaton's dialogue, in French, is dubbed. The film was never theatrically released in the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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