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14 February 1931 (USA) moreUser Comments:
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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This was originally a Cole Porter musical, but the songs were omitted from the film because box-office receipts for musical films at that time were down. 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.