Monsieur Taxi
| Monsieur Taxi | |
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| Directed by | André Hunebelle | 
| Written by | Jean Halain | 
| Produced by | Pierre Cabaud  André Hunebelle Adrien Remaugé  | 
| Starring | Michel Simon  Jane Marken Jean Brochard  | 
| Cinematography | Paul Cotteret | 
| Edited by | Jean Feyte | 
| Music by | Jean Marion | 
Production company  | Production Artistique et Cinématographique  | 
| Distributed by | Pathé Consortium Cinéma | 
Release date  | 
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Running time  | 78 minutes | 
| Country | France | 
| Language | French | 
Monsieur Taxi is a 1952 French comedy film directed André Hunebelle and starring Michel Simon and Jane Marken and Jean Brochard.[1] It is about Pierre Verger, who is nicknamed Monsieur Taxi and always in company of a smart young dog called "Gangster". It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location around the city including in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Carré.
Plot
In Paris Monsieur Taxi comes across a bag a passenger seems to have forgotten on the backseat. The bag contains a considerable amount of money and he is desperate to return it. While trying to find the owner of the bag he is eventually taken for a criminal and arrested by police. But in the end everything is straightened out and he lives to see his both children get married.
Cast
- Michel Simon as Pierre Verger (Monsieur Taxi)
 - Jane Marken as Louise, wife of Léon
 - Jean Brochard as Léon, husband of Louise, policeman
 - Monique Darbaud as Lily Minouche, the dancer
 - Jean Carmet as François
 - André Valmy as the main inspector
 - Claire Olivier as Hélène Verger
 - Pauline Carton as the aunt of Lily
 - Espanita Cortez as the Italian
 - Jeanne Fusier-Gir as Mrs Angela
 - Nathalie Nattier as La Rousse
 - Paul Azaïs as Henri - le barman
 - Louis Bugette as L'inspecteur adjoint
 - Jean Carmet as François
 - André Dalibert as Le commissaire de police
 - Paul Demange as Le petit homme qui téléphone
 - Floriane Prévot as Jacqueline Verger
 - Paul Faivre as Gustave - un chauffeur de taxi
 - Madeleine Barbulée as La tricoteuse
 - Monique Darbaud as Lily Minouche
 - Louis Blanche as Le menuisier
 - Georgette Anys as La marchande de salades
 - Louis de Funès as Le peintre qui voit rouge
 
References
- ^ Bessy & Chirat p.189
 
Bibliography
- Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955. Pygmalion, 1989.
 
External links
- Monsieur Taxi at IMDb
 - Monsieur Taxi (1952) at the Films de France
 
