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The French, They Are a Funny Race is a french film of genre Comedy directed by Preston Sturges released in USA on 20 may 1957 with Jack Buchanan
The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955)
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Add to a movie listThe French, They Are a Funny Race — known in France as Les Carnets du Major Thompson (The Notebooks of Major Thompson) and in the U.K. as The Diary of Major Thompson — is a 1955 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, based on the novel by Pierre Daninos, and starring Jack Buchanan and Martine Carol.
This was the last film directed by Preston Sturges as well as the last film for actor Jack Buchanan.
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Major Thompson (Jack Buchanan) is a crusty, middle-aged English officer, retired and widowed and living in Paris, who tries to adjust to the French way of life. He falls in love with frivolous but alluring Martine (Martine Carol), and then marries her. The question is, will their child be raised as a proper Englishman, or a swinging Frenchman?Actors
Jack Buchanan
(Le Major Marmaduke Thompson)
Martine Carol
(Martine Thompson)
Noël-Noël
(Monsieur Taupin)
Paulette Dubost
(Madame Taupin)
Katie Boyle
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