PARIS QUI DORT represented a delightfully entertaining feature debut for the young René Clair. Also known as THE CRAZY RAY, Clair's 1924 film humorously combines the new art of the cinema with other modern symbols: the airplane and the Eiffel Tower. Again, Clair re-edited the film in the '50s to the concise featurette presented here as AT 3:25. The pilot is actor Albert Prejean, who would later play the lead character Albert in UNDER THE ROOFS OF PARIS.
Up Next in René Clair‘s Inventive Enchantments
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Two Timid Souls
Directed by René Clair • 1928 • France
Starring Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra FloryDirector René Clair’s last silent feature, adapted from another Eugène Labiche play, is one his finest comic adventures. Young lawyer Fremissin (Pierre Batcheff) must overcome his debilitating meekness in ord...
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The Italian Straw Hat
Directed by René Clair • 1928 • France
Starring Albert Préjean, Geymond Vital, Olga ChekhovaEn route to his wedding, Fadinard (Albert Préjean) parks alongside a country lane, where his horse chews on the hat of a married woman (Olga Chekhova) engaging in a tryst with a solemn, decorated lieuten...
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Quatorze juillet
Directed by René Clair • 1933 • France
Starring Annabella, George Riguad, Raymond CordyOn a particularly festive Bastille Day in the City of Light, flower seller Anna (Annabella) and hack driver Jean (George Rigaud) fall in love, and all seems right with the world—until a seductive former girlf...
