Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

Réalisateur:

George Marshall

Scénaristes:

Melvin Frank (writer)
Norman Panama (writer)

Date de sortie:

4 septembre 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Comedie | Histoire

Intrigue:

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain.

Plot Keywords:

Barber | Spain | King Louis XV | Political Intrigue | Dungeon

Avis des utilisateurs:

France And Spain In a Hopeless Situation

Ensemble

Bob Hope	...	Monsieur Beaucaire
Joan Caulfield	...	Mimi
Patric Knowles	...	Duc le Chandre
Marjorie Reynolds	...	Princess Maria of Spain
Cecil Kellaway	...	Count D'Armand
Joseph Schildkraut	...	Don Francisco
Reginald Owen	...	King Louis XV
Constance Collier	...	The Queen of France
Hillary Brooke	...	Mme. Pompadour
Fortunio Bonanova	...	Don Carlos
Douglass Dumbrille	...	George Washington
Mary Nash	...	The Duenna
Leonid Kinskey	...	Rene
Howard Freeman	...	King Philip II

Durée:

93 min

Pays:

USA

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Noir et Blanc

Rapport de forme:

1,37 : 1

Son:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Classification:

West Germany:12 (nf) | Finland:S

Société:

Paramount Pictures

Anecdotes:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Goofs:

Révélant des erreurs: When one of the assassins runs into the wooden door, his steel sword bends.

Guillemet:

King Louis XV: ...you know how I am about weddings.
The Queen of France: Do you remember? Louis? Our wedding?
King Louis XV: Hanh?
The Queen of France: Ours.
King Louis XV: [Recalling the past fondly] Of course, I do. Forty years ago. Ah, My Dear, you were the most beautiful, the most radiant woman in all France.
The Queen of France: Oh, Louis!
King Louis XV: Yes, My Dear, you were. When I look at you today...
[Changing mood]
King Louis XV: Forty years is a long time!

Connexions De Film:

version de A Gentleman of France (1905)

France And Spain In a Hopeless Situation

Some current film fans with a perfunctory knowledge of cinema stars of the past will be shocked to learn that Rudolph Valentino and Bob Hope played the same title role in two different versions of Booth Tarkington's Monsieur Beaucaire. Of course you can believe there's a vast difference in the version.

The Valentino version is a straight dramatic part about a Parisian barber in the court of Louis XV pretending to be a nobleman. Rudy was at his most romantic in the role and it was one of his biggest hits in the Twenties.

Bob Hope's Monsieur Beaucaire finds Bob as a barber at Versailles in the court of Louis XV and worried about the romantic intentions of his sweetheart, scullery maid Joan Caulfield. Cole Porter wrote it best that Caulfield is true to Hope in her fashion, but she's an ambitious girl who knows what it takes to get ahead in the court. She aspires to be Madame Pompadour who is played here by Hillary Brooke.

Due to a set of circumstances way too complex to write about, Hope and Caulfield both get themselves banished, mainly because of Hope's fantasies and both get themselves involved in the politics between France and Spain where a royal marriage is being arranged to the dismay of both participants, Marjorie Reynolds for the Spanish and Patric Knowles for the French.

Playing the puppet-master in all the intrigue is Joseph Schildkraut who shows a real flair for comedy. His final duel with Hope ranks right up there with one Hope engaged in with Basil Rathbone in Cassanova's Big Night.

Rounding out a wonderful cast of supporting players are Howard Freeman as the King of Spain and Reginald Owen and Constance Collier as the King and Queen of France. You don't doubt why Louis has Madame Pompadour around when you take one look at the Queen.

By the way Joseph Schildkraut comes to one of the most satisfying ends a villain ever got in film. You'll have to see Monsieur Beaucaire and laugh all the way through to see what happens.