Monsieur Taxi

Monsieur Taxi
Directed byAndré Hunebelle
Written byJean Halain
Produced byPierre Cabaud
André Hunebelle
Adrien Remaugé
StarringMichel Simon
Jane Marken
Jean Brochard
CinematographyPaul Cotteret
Edited byJean Feyte
Music byJean Marion
Production
company
Production Artistique et Cinématographique
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 3 September 1952 (1952-09-03)
Running time
78 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Monsieur Taxi is a 1952 French comedy film directed André Hunebelle and starring Michel Simon and Jane Marken and Jean Brochard.[1] It is about Pierre Verger, who is nicknamed Monsieur Taxi and always in company of a smart young dog called "Gangster". It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location around the city including in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré.

Plot

In Paris Monsieur Taxi comes across a bag a passenger seems to have forgotten on the backseat. The bag contains a considerable amount of money and he is desperate to return it. While trying to find the owner of the bag he is eventually taken for a criminal and arrested by police. But in the end everything is straightened out and he lives to see his both children get married.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Bessy & Chirat p.189

Bibliography

  • Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955. Pygmalion, 1989.


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