Buster Keaton: Le Roi des Champs-Élysées

A rare opportunity to see one of Buster Keaton’s most surprising and charming sound features, a 1934 French production co-starring the lovely Paulette Dubost.

Filmed on location in Paris, Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (1934) finds Keaton in dual roles in a comic tale of mistaken identity, criminal mix-ups and backstage mayhem.

Though made far from Hollywood, it’s more Keaton-esque than his MGM sound films and features his first deliberate smile that's been on screen since The Saphead in 1920. 

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