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
- Michel Simon as Pierre Verger (Monsieur Taxi)
- Jane Marken as Louise, wife of Léon
- Jean Brochard as Léon, husband of Louise, policeman
- Monique Darbaud as Lily Minouche, the dancer
- Jean Carmet as François
- André Valmy as the main inspector
- Claire Olivier as Hélène Verger
- Pauline Carton as the aunt of Lily
- Espanita Cortez as the Italian
- Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Mrs Angela
- Nathalie Nattier as La Rousse
- Paul Azaïs as Henri - le barman
- Louis Bugette as L'inspecteur adjoint
- Jean Carmet as François
- André Dalibert as Le commissaire de police
- Paul Demange as Le petit homme qui téléphone
- Floriane Prévot as Jacqueline Verger
- Paul Faivre as Gustave - un chauffeur de taxi
- Madeleine Barbulée as La tricoteuse
- Monique Darbaud as Lily Minouche
- Louis Blanche as Le menuisier
- Georgette Anys as La marchande de salades
- Louis de Funès as Le peintre qui voit rouge
References
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Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955. Pygmalion, 1989.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0044918}}
- [http://filmsdefrance.com/FDF_Monsieur_Taxi_1952_rev.html Monsieur Taxi (1952)] at the Films de France
{{André Hunebelle}}
Category:1950s French-language films
Category:French black-and-white films
Category:Films directed by André Hunebelle
Category:Films scored by Jean Marion
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