The Little Cafe (1931 film)
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Duration Country United States | Director Ludwig Berger Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Tristan Bernard , Jacques Bataille-Henri , Vincent Lawrence Release date May 8, 1931 (French premiere) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Little Cafe (French:Le petit café) is a 1931 French-language American Pre-Code musical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Yvonne Vallée and Tania Fédor. The film is a foreign-language version of the 1930 film Playboy of Paris, which was based on the play The Little Cafe by Tristan Bernard. Multiple-language versions were common in the years following the introduction of sound film, before the practice of dubbing became widespread.
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The film received a better reception from critics than the English-language version had.
Synopsis
Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne.
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References
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