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Old 11-29-18, 02:24 PM
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Old 11-29-18, 03:14 PM
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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.
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Originally Posted by Trakhak
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.
ty, my ex had a by mail acct. I'm not gonna ask.
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Originally Posted by Lazyass
''A SUNDAY IN HELL''

My favourite cycling movie also!
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Old 11-29-18, 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by EdwinHeadwind
The Triplets of Belleville is pretty great.
Thanks for mentioning that.
I watched part of that movie and put it on my list to watch later. Then it disappeared off of netflix, and I had no idea how to find it again because I didn't remember the title
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Old 11-30-18, 05:55 AM
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Lots of great bicycle clips in movies that had nothing to do with bicycles.


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Originally Posted by acidfast7
Very interesting. Thanks AF7!
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