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The American Beauty (1961)
Directed by Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia
Comedy · 1h 44m
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Cast
Robert Dhéry
Marcel Perrignon
Colette Brosset
Paulette Perrignon
Louis de Funès
Police station secretary / Head of personnel
Michel Serrault
Tramp
Jean Lefebvre
Chougnasse
Alfred Adam
Alfred
Robert Burnier
Houche
Pierre Dac
Colonel
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Eliane D'Almeida
Simone
Bernard Dhéran
Mr. Jean
Annie Ducaux
Mrs. Lucanzas
Jacques Fabbri
'Le gros' / Fatso
Crew
- Director
- Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia
- Screenplay
- Alfred Adam, Robert Dhéry, Pierre Tchernia
- Director of Photography
- Ghislain Cloquet
- Original Music Composer
- Gérard Calvi
- Editor
- Albert Jurgenson
- Producer
- Édouard Harispuru, Henri Diamant-Berger, Florence Lesser, Marcel Maurey
Details
- Original title
- La Belle Américaine
- Release date
- 1961-09-29
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC), Le Film d'art, Corflor, Panoramas-Films