Monsieur Taxi | |
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Directed by | André Hunebelle |
Written by | Jean Halain |
Produced by | Pierre Cabaud André Hunebelle Adrien Remaugé |
Starring | Michel Simon Jane Marken Jean Brochard |
Cinematography | Paul Cotteret |
Edited by | Jean Feyte |
Music by | Jean Marion |
Production company | Production Artistique et Cinématographique |
Distributed by | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
Release date |
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Running time | 78 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
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.
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.