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The French, They Are a Funny Race

Les carnets du Major Thompson

France, 1955

Comedy

Synopsis

The final film effort of producer-director-writer Preston Sturges. Once a Hollywood wunderkind of the 1940s, Sturges had fallen on hard times in the 1950s, and was forced to finance and film his last picture in France.

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Scout Tafoya

This would have been suitable were it his 2nd or 3rd film, but as the cap to such a tremendous career, it just doesn't do its creator justice.
May 12, 2011 01:28
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