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Mystery Trip

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Mystery Trip
Directed byPierre Prévert
Written byJacques Prévert
Pierre Prévert
Claude Accursi
Based onVoyage Surprise by André Gillois
Produced byLouis Daquin
Pierre Lévy-Corti
Adrien Remaugé
Roland Tual
StarringMartine Carol
Maurice Baquet
Jean Sinoël
CinematographyJean Bourgoin
Edited byJacques Desagneaux
Raymonde le Jeune
Music byJoseph Kosma
Production
companies
Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français
Productions Synops
Distributed byPathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
  • 21 May 1947 (1947-05-21)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Mystery Trip (French: Voyage surprise) is a 1947 French comedy film directed by Pierre Prévert and starring Martine Carol, Maurice Baquet and Jean Sinoël.[1] [2] [3] It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Trauner and Auguste Capelier.

Synopsis

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A struggling coach service run by the elderly Piuff is struggling from competition. To help revive the business his grandchildren assist him to organise a mystery trip. His adversaries try to sabotage it but in a surreal series of events the disasters of the journey are taken by the passengers as all part of the enjoyment.

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Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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