Le Roi des Champs-Élysées
In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
Buster Keaton
Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
Paulette Dubost
Germaine
Madeleine Guitty
Madame Garnier
Lucien Callamand
Jacques Dumesnil
Gangster
Pierre Piérade
Gangster
Gaston Dupray
Raymond Blot
Colette Darfeuil
Simone
In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
ชาวนิวยอร์กอย่างสกิป โดนาทู และแฮร์รี่ มอนโรไม่มีงานทำและไม่มีอนาคต ดังนั้นพวกเขาจึงตัดสินใจหนีออกจากเมืองและหางานทำที่อื่น โดยได้งานด้วยการสวมชุดนกหัวขวานเพื่อโปรโมตการเปิดธนาคาร เมื่อชุดขนนกของพวกเขาถูกขโมยและนำไปใช้ในการปล้นธนาคาร พวกเขาไม่ต้องกังวลเรื่องการจ้างงานอีกต่อไป พวกเขาถูกส่งไปที่เรือนจำ
A struggling actor, Stéphane arrives with his troupe at the Avignon Festival to perform a boulevard play. There, he meets Fanny, a renowned actress, and falls under her spell. Taking advantage of a misunderstanding to get closer to her, Stéphane sinks into a lie that he will have to keep going for the duration of the festival... but which will quickly overwhelm him!
Michel Berthier, a senior executive at a mattress manufacturing company, has just been fired. As he does not dare to tell the truth to Juliette, his partner, he goes into debt to maintain the family’s standard of living, showering them with gifts. But soon he can no longer lie, and he decides to leave the house. After losing his money, his car, and his shoes, he meets Toubib, Mimosa, and Crayon, three “homeless” people who wash themselves in the restrooms at the Gare de l’Est. They take him under their wing and lead him to break into his former company in order to get sleeping bags and beds.
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
Jobless loner Eddie Vuibert gets a lucky break when a rich Jewish entrepreneur mistakes him for a Jew and gives him a sweet job in the Parisian fashion district.
หลังจากถูกลอตเตอรี่ ผู้ต้องขังต้องไล่ตามผู้คุมที่ถือตั๋วที่ถูกรางวัล
Hired to helm an Americanized take on a British play, director Lloyd Fellowes does his best to control an eccentric group of stage actors. With a star actress quickly passing her prime, a male lead with no confidence, and a bit actor that's rarely sober, chaos ensues in the lead up to a Broadway premiere.
Nelson Hibbert expects to become the new president of Nagel Industries, but Mr. Nagel gives the promotion to another employee. When Nelson barges into Nagel's office to confront him, he finds Nagel's been murdered. Fearing that he will be implicated, Nelson decides to run from the law...despite the fact that the police already know the killer's identity.