Monsieur Taxi

{{Short description|1952 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Monsieur Taxi

| image = File:Monsieur Taxi.jpg

| caption =

| director = André Hunebelle

| producer =Pierre Cabaud
André Hunebelle
Adrien Remaugé

| writer = Jean Halain

| starring =Michel Simon
Jane Marken
Jean Brochard

| music = Jean Marion

| cinematography = Paul Cotteret

| editing = Jean Feyte

| studio = Production Artistique et Cinématographique

| distributor = Pathé Consortium Cinéma

| released = {{film date|df=y|1952|9|3}}

| runtime = 78 minutes

| country = France

| language = French

| budget =

}}

Monsieur Taxi is a 1952 French comedy film directed André Hunebelle and starring Michel Simon and Jane Marken and Jean Brochard.Bessy & Chirat p.189 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

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Bibliography

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