16 October 1925 Comedy 180 mins
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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22 December 1925
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29 November 1925
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When drunken Canadian trapper Raoul La Fane attacks his young wife Marie, she takes a shot at him. La Fane falls, and Marie, thinking she killed him, flees into the white wilderness.
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A young man gets engaged to a business competitor's daughter.
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David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself.
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.
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