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14 February 1931 (USA) morePlot:
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Sometimes funny, sometimes painful moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Ole Olsen | ... | Simon (as Olsen) |
| Chic Johnson | ... | Peter (as Johnson) |
| William Gaxton | ... | Jack Forbes |
| Helen Broderick | ... | Violet |
| John Halliday | ... | Michael Cummings |
| Claudia Dell | ... | Lu Lu Carroll |
| Lester Crawford | ... | Billy Baxter |
| Evalyn Knapp | ... | Miss Wheeler-Smith |
| Charles Judels | ... | Pernasse - Hotel Manager |
| Carmelita Geraghty | ... | Marcelle Dubrey |
| Vera Gordon | ... | Jewish Tourist's Wife |
| Nat Carr | ... | Jewish Tourist |
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USA:70 min (Turner library print) | 74 min (copyright length)Country:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 27 November 1929 and closed 5 July 1930 after 254 performances. Helen Broderick, Lester Crawford (the parents of Broderick Crawford) and William Gaxton originated their movie roles in the play. Other opening night cast members included Betty Compton, Jean Del Val, Thurston Hall and Genevieve Tobin. moreSoundtrack:
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Hardcore fans of Olsen and Johnson and/or Bela Lugosi will need no persuading, but others may find Fifty Million Frenchmen a pretty heavy slog. It's one of those early talkies where the actors hadn't quite figured out how to adjust their body language or their vocal intonations to suit the new medium, and it's at times awkwardly paced and badly shot. Nonetheless there are some inspired moments of Olson and Johnson lunacy, especially when the boys disguise themselves as the assistants of a stage magician and end up on stage performing a deadly sword trick. The romantic subplots are unnecessary and uninteresting and Johnson's maniacal laughter soon gets irksome.