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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15 November 1925
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.
23 May 1925
Raffles is an English gentleman with a secret life—he is the notorious jewel thief known as "The Amateur Cracksman.
12 January 1925
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.
29 August 1925
Farmer Al Falfa's car comes to life and sprays oil on his window before driving away. Al Falfa now needs a window washer.
28 September 1925
Handsome action star Reed Howes, the former "Arrow Collar Man," starred in this low-budget silent melodrama as an adventuresome Yankee who saves the duly elected president of a South American republic from being overthrown by his unscrupulous secretary.
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Silent comedy about a poor country bumpkin who goes to Hollywood to make good.
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.
20 September 1925
Bill Bangs and his Negro valet, George Washington Black, stray into a mining town and are arrested when they attempt to steal something to eat.
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.
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Their only sim was that they loved too much: lovers never stop to count the cost. He was a young millionaire and she was only a "Bargain "Basement" girl, but they had one week of paradise that started two years of drama.
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