They Had to See Paris
5.8
“America’s greatest humorist now TALKS from the screen!”
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 inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?
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Cast
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Will Rogers
Pike Peters
Also in
Judge Priest
Steamboat Round the Bend
Irene Rich
Idy Peters
Known for
Fort Apache
Angel and the Badman
William Fox
Frank Borzage
Owen Davis
Sophie Wachner
Marguerite Churchill
Opal Peters
Known for
Dracula's Daughter
The Big Trail
Chester A. Lyons
Homer Croy
Ivan Lebedeff
Marquis de Brissac
Known for
History Is Made at Night
The Shanghai Gesture
Sonya Levien
George Lipschultz
Frank Borzage Director · Owen Davis Writer Homer Croy Author
Budget $1.9M · United States release September 18, 1929 · Produced in United States
Box office
Budget
$1,929,000
Production
Fox Film Corporation
Production · Distribution
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 18, 1929
Theatrical
United States · December 9, 2008
Physical · DVD
Argentina
July 15, 1930
Australia
February 1, 1930 · Adelaide
France
November 22, 1929
Ireland
May 30, 1930
Japan
November 1, 1930
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