Le Roi des Champs-Élysées
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Le Roi des Champs-Élysées is a 1934
French comedy starring Buster Keaton. This French-made film has Keaton playing two roles, as an aspiring actor, and as an American gangster. A closing gag has the typically deadpan
Keaton breaking out into a big grin after being kissed.
Most all of Keaton's dialogue, in French, is dubbed. The film was never theatrically released in the United States.
1934 in film
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French comedy starring Buster Keaton. This French-made film has Keaton playing two roles, as an aspiring actor, and as an American gangster. A closing gag has the typically deadpan
Deadpan
Deadpan is a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language, usually speaking in a casual, monotone, solemn, blunt, disgusted or matter-of-fact voice and expressing an unflappably calm, archly insincere or artificially grave demeanor...
Keaton breaking out into a big grin after being kissed.
Most all of Keaton's dialogue, in French, is dubbed. The film was never theatrically released in the United States.