The King of the Champs-Élysées (1934)
Le Roi des Champs-Élysées
In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
- Date of release
- 1934-12-11
- TMDB
- 5.9 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Max Nosseck
Casting
- Buster Keaton — Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
- Paulette Dubost — Germaine
- Madeleine Guitty — Madame Garnier
- Lucien Callamand
- Jacques Dumesnil — Gangster
- Pierre Piérade — Gangster
- Gaston Dupray
- Raymond Blot
- Colette Darfeuil — Simone
- Paul Clerget
- Franck Maurice
- Jim Gérald
Interesting facts
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.
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