They Had to See Paris
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This globe-trotting comedy is the talkie debut of star Will Rogers, as well as the first film ever for Fifi D'Orsay. The Film was successful enough to warrant a sequel in 1932, although with a very different tone, as the depression was in full swing at that point.
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- Director
- Frank Borzage
- Starring
- Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Marguerite Churchill, Ivan Lebedeff, Owen Davis Jr., Rex Bell, Fifi D'Orsay, Sherwood Bailey
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