Monsieur Taxi

78 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

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

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