In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the Tour de France and also with Henri Decoin as a screenwriter.
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Georges Biscot as Fortuné Richard
Blanche Montel as Simone Piérard
Jean Murat as Jacquemart
Piérard as Le directeur sportif
Bouboule as Bouboule de gomme
Henri-Amédée Charpentier as Le père Anatole
Ernest-Henri Demanne as Le directeur de l'usine de cycles
Émile Vervet as Le contremaître Bonbonne
Henriette Clairval-Terof as La bonne de l'hôtel
Jeanne Marie-Laurent as Maman Richard
Georgette Lhéry as Olga
Maurice Champreux Director
Paul Cartoux Screenplay
Henri Decoin Screenplay
Léon Morizet Director of Photography
The Pedlar Trailer
France 16 October 1925
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13 December 1925
Billy inherits a major department store, but has to pretend not to be married in order to claim it - which doesn't sit too well with his wife.
29 November 1925
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.
12 April 1925
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer.
01 November 1925
Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car of wealthy August Van Dorn, Jane gets the idea to finance her trip by kidnapping his son, Donald, for ransom.
15 February 1925
When his son marries a woman whose mother is the madame of a brothel, a wealthy father in San Francisco disowns him.
12 April 1925
Ann, a 19-year-old girl who looks much younger, meets a dashing army major on a boat sailing from Liverpool to Bombay, India, and falls in love with him.
13 December 1925
Based on a novel by William J. Locke, Stella Maris is a remake of the 1918 Mary Pickford vehicle of the same name.
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Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city.
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Mickey's mother makes him dance and won't let him fight. Only his grandma understands what it's like to be a boy.
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