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The French Line (1953)
Director: Lloyd Bacon
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From Time Out Film Guide
Jane Russell shown 'flat' is perhaps an anatomical impossibility, but the film was originally made in 3-D, and most screenings nowadays will unfortunately prevent you from testing the accuracy of RKO's publicity teaser: 'It'll knock both your eyes out!' The woman who once gave Howard Hughes his greatest technical challenge plays a Texan tycoon who disguises herself as a model and goes to Paris to find a man unaware of her vast fortune. Enter Gilbert Roland as a French musical comedy star and the excuse for some song-and-dance routines that look like out-takes from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire.Author: ATu
Cast & crew
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Producer: Edmund Grainger
Cast: Jane Russell, Gilbert Roland, Arthur Hunnicutt, Mary McCarty, Craig Stevens, Steven Geray, Kim Novak full cast
Genre(s): Musicals
Duration: 102 mins
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