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The opening scene in Rene Clair's Le Million (1931; French) shows a fugitive running away from a prison, still in his inmate shirt with its broad black and white stripes, who dashes down a hill and into a road, where he collides with a bike racer, knocking him down. The fugitive naturally jumps on the bike and pedals furiously to a nearby town and crosses the race's finish line, where, to his surprise, he receives the winner's bouquet.
It's a throwaway gag, but you have to be impressed by Clair's visual punning: the fugitive's striped shirt looks perfectly plausible as a racer's jersey to the people at the finish line. Great movie, almost up there with Pagnol's magnificent Marius/Fanny/Cesar movies of the same era.
Netflix has the movie on DVD, for the few hard-core folk who still get movies by mail.
It's a throwaway gag, but you have to be impressed by Clair's visual punning: the fugitive's striped shirt looks perfectly plausible as a racer's jersey to the people at the finish line. Great movie, almost up there with Pagnol's magnificent Marius/Fanny/Cesar movies of the same era.
Netflix has the movie on DVD, for the few hard-core folk who still get movies by mail.
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The opening scene in Rene Clair's Le Million (1931; French) shows a fugitive running away from a prison, still in his inmate shirt with its broad black and white stripes, who dashes down a hill and into a road, where he collides with a bike racer, knocking him down. The fugitive naturally jumps on the bike and pedals furiously to a nearby town and crosses the race's finish line, where, to his surprise, he receives the winner's bouquet.
It's a throwaway gag, but you have to be impressed by Clair's visual punning: the fugitive's striped shirt looks perfectly plausible as a racer's jersey to the people at the finish line. Great movie, almost up there with Pagnol's magnificent Marius/Fanny/Cesar movies of the same era.
Netflix has the movie on DVD, for the few hard-core folk who still get movies by mail.
It's a throwaway gag, but you have to be impressed by Clair's visual punning: the fugitive's striped shirt looks perfectly plausible as a racer's jersey to the people at the finish line. Great movie, almost up there with Pagnol's magnificent Marius/Fanny/Cesar movies of the same era.
Netflix has the movie on DVD, for the few hard-core folk who still get movies by mail.
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