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They Had to See Paris (1929)

1h 22m · 18 Sep 1929

America’s greatest humorist now TALKS from the screen!

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Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?

Movie ID91637
GenreComedy
DirectorFrank Borzage
Main castWill Rogers, Irene Rich, Marguerite Churchill, Ivan Lebedeff, Owen Davis Jr., Rex Bell, Fifi D'Orsay, Sherwood Bailey
Release date18 September 1929
Release year1929
LanguageEnglish
Duration82 min (1h 22m)
Rating6.4 / 10 (TMDB)
Production houseFox Film Corporation

Director: Frank Borzage
Writers: Owen Davis

Top cast

Will RogersPike Peters Irene RichIdy Peters Marguerite ChurchillOpal Peters Ivan LebedeffMarquis de Brissac Owen Davis Jr.Ross Peters Rex BellClark McCurdy Fifi D'OrsayFifi Sherwood BaileyLittle Boy (uncredited) André CheronValet (uncredited) Marcelle CordayMarquise De Brissac (uncredited) Gregory GayePrince Ordinsky (uncredited) Edgar KennedyEd Eggers (uncredited) Robert P. KerrTupper (uncredited)
Theodore LodiGrand Duke Mikhail (uncredited)
Marcia ManonMiss Mason (uncredited)
Christiane YvesFleurie (uncredited)

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