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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After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother.
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