Paris Holiday (1958)

Directed by

Gerd Oswald

Genre

comedy film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

12

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American comedian goes to France to meet a screenwriter. Secret agents think he is carrying secret documents. The screenwriter is killed and the comedian becomes a suspect. The police use him to trap the real criminals and he ends up being chased around Paris.

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What happens

Paris Holiday is a 1958 American action comedy film, starring Bob Hope, which was directed by Gerd Oswald, and written by Edmund Beloin and Dean Riesner from a story by Hope. The film also features French comedian Fernandel, Anita Ekberg and Martha Hyer, and a rare appearance by writer/director Preston Sturges. The film was shot in Technirama and Technicolor in Paris and in the French village of Gambais. The film initially focuses on an American comedian who is traveling to France to meet with a screenwriter. He is wrongly suspected by secret agents to be transporting incriminating manuscripts. In Paris, the screenwriter is murdered and the comedian is arrested as a murder suspect. The local authorities use him as bait for the actual criminals, and he is soon chased all over Paris by the criminal underworld. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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