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...young composer (Gérard Philipe) lives in a small town in France, teaching school all day, writing music half the night, waiting to hear if the Paris Opera people like the score he sent them. The trouble is, there's so much noise. At the garage next door, they are always gunning engines and throwing tin cans around; when he goes for a walk, small boys follow him into the quietest parks and squawk their little tin horns. How can a man write music in such conditions...
...between trips on his private time machine, Gérard wears an otherworldly expression that begins to worry his friends. Is he considering suicide? They ply him with wine, let him win at cards. In short, they make him late for his triple date in dreamland. And what happened to a man who kept a lady waiting in 1900, in 1830, and in 1790 proves to be so much like what happens today that the composer is cured of his nostalgia and decides to risk being contemporary-a risk considerably sweetened by the charms of the garage-owner...
While Sir Hugh laid wreaths and visited museums, some other travelers inconspicuously departed from Haiti. Senator Marcel Hérard, a political foe of Magloire, who had eluded arrest three weeks earlier by having himself smuggled into the Mexican embassy rolled up in a rug, received a safe-conduct from the President and flew off to Mexico. Three lesser oppositionists, like Hérard charged with plotting to overthrow the government, left the Panamanian embassy and headed for Cuba. But 25 others, caught by the cops, still languished in jail...
Fanfan the Tulip. A farcical take-off on costume dramas, with Gérard Philipe as the swashbuckling hero; Gina Lollobrigida is the eye-filling heroine (TIME...
Fanfan the Tulip. A farcical take-off on costume dramas, with Gérard Philipe as the swashbuckling hero ; Gina Lollobrigida is the eye-filling heroine (TIME...