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76 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
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Paris Incident
1950 1h 37m FR
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9.0
MASTERPIECE
★9.0TMDB · 1
Synopsis
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Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Gérard Gervais
Antoine Letourneur, the little telegraph operator
Eva Simonet
Amélie
Olivier Hussenot
The police commissioner
Christian Fourcade
A little boy
Henri Crémieux
School's director
Jacques Tarride
Mr. Grandjean
Germaine Michel
The flowergirl
Henri Marchand
Joseph, the school janitor
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Henri Decoin
- Languages
- French
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The take
Henri Decoin directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 176 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 2Gérard Gervais and Eva Simonet and Olivier Hussenot carry the top of the cast.
- 3IMDB entry: tt0138148 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 4Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 97 min · 1h 37m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
Also by
Henri Decoin
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1950-11-02
Also known as
International titles
- Paris IncidentFR
