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They Had to See Paris

They Had to See Paris

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 18, 1929

Runtime

1h 22m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

56%

Original Title

They Had to See Paris

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

Director

Frank Borzage

Description

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?