An Italian Straw Hat (Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie) (The Horse Ate the Hat) (1927)
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Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel's effervescent French farce An Italian Straw Hat was gracefully adapted for the screen by director René Clair. Albert Prejean plays a well-meaning fellow who is on the way to his wedding. While en route, Prejean's horse has the bad manners to eat the expensive… More Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel's effervescent French farce An Italian Straw Hat was gracefully adapted for the screen by director René Clair. Albert Prejean plays a well-meaning fellow who is on the way to his wedding. While en route, Prejean's horse has the bad manners to eat the expensive hat of a lovely young woman. The girl is beside herself, so Prejean gallantly offers to postpone his wedding until he can locate an identical chapeau, thereby setting in motion an endless series of comic misunderstandings. More than one historian has noted that Albert Prejean is made up to look like American two-reel comedian Charley Chase, most of whose "Imagine my embarrassment!" films were constructed pretty much along the same lines as An Italian Straw Hat. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- René Clair
- Genres
- Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 13, 1928 Wide
- Studio
- Moviegraphs Inc.
Critic Reviews
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Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies Online
... a fleet, lightfingered gem with the befuddled energy and knockabout momentum of a Harold Lloyd movie, the criss-crossing characters of a screwball comedy and the continental attitude and sparkling wit of a Lubitsch film.
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
It's a madcap, sophisticated comedy of the highest order.
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Cast
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Marise Maia
as Helene
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Olga Tschechowa
as Anais Beauperthuis
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Albert Préjean
as Fadinard
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Jim Gerald
as Beauperlhuis
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Paul Olivier
as Uncle Vezinet
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Alex Allin
as F61ix
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Alexis Bondi
as Another Cousin
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Louis Pré Fils
as Bobin a cousin
- Valentine Tessier
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Alice Tissot
as A cousin
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Geymond Vital
as Tavemier
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Volbert
as The Mayor
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Yvonneck
as Nonancourt
