UNITED STATES · 1929

They Had to See Paris

Name: They Had to See Paris
Released: 1929

Frank Borzage

Classical Hollywood social aspiration cultural clash wealth and nouveau riche family dynamics American abroad

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Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitab

Year1929

CountryUnited States

DirectorFrank Borzage

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