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The French, They Are a Funny Race ( French: Les Carnets du Major Thompson, lit. 'The Notebooks of Major Thompson'; released in the United Kingdom as The Diary of Major Thompson) is a 1955 French comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, based on the 1954 novel Les Carnets du Major Thompson by Pierre Daninos, and starring Martine ...
The French, They Are A Funny Race (1955) D. Preston Sturges; w/Jack Buchanan (Full Movie) This is Preston Sturges's final film, and one that's been very hard to see for a long time....
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The French, They Are a Funny Race: Directed by Preston Sturges. With Jack Buchanan, Martine Carol, Noël-Noël, Totti Truman Taylor. Major Thompson, an Englishman living in France, comments in his memoirs on the peculiarities of his French wife and friends.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Preston Sturges
- 1955-12-09
Sturges struggles manfully to recapture the satiric spirit of his earlier classics (The Palm Beach Story, Miracle of Morgan's Creek et. al.), but it is clear that he has lost his touch. Les Carnets du Major Thompson is better known by its American title, The French They are a Funny Race.
- Preston Sturges
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The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955) Directed by Preston Sturges Genres - Comedy , Romance | Release Date - Dec 9, 1955 | Run Time - 105 min. | MPAA Rating - NR
Acknowledged as the foremost satirist of his time, Preston Sturges enjoyed his greatest vogue between 1940 and 1944, when his pungent wit and frenetic slapstick exploded on such targets as Tammany Hall politics, advertising, American fertility rites, hero and mother worship.
