The Golden Can (1932) [N/A]
Featuring:
Raymond Cordy, Marc Dantzer, Simone Bourday
Written by:
Jean Kolb
Noël Renard
Directed by:
Christian-Jaque
Release Date:
September 9, 1932
Original Title:
Le Bidon d'or
Genres:
Comedy
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 75
A hawker, pursued by the law, finds refuge in a garage and finds there a former comrade who has become a mechanic. As he looks like a car driver, he finds himself forced to sit behind the wheel of a car to participate in a race, but not knowing how to drive, he finds himself dead last.
Till 1937,Christian -Jacques 's movies are a dime a dozen ;most of these movies are eminently forgettable : one cannot rank " compartiment de dames seules""la famille Pont-Biquet" "Josette" ,"les dégourdis de la onzième" (!) "A Venise une nuit " or "les pirates du rail" among the lost treasures of the French cinema .It was the late thirties before he became a truly great director.His first effort , "le bidon d'or" (the golden can) , suffers from a weak desultory script ; two many subplots ,incoherent , its only interest ,as the precedent user pointed out ,is its documentary side : a car race with old jalopies is pleasant to watch : note that number 13 is at the start ;since 1925, this number has been suspected of bringing bad luck to the competitors and rarely used by them (there's a Michel Vaillant comic strip called " Le 13 est au départ" which begins with a gripping nightmarish scene).A desultory script,to put it mildly : two garage owners,vying for their clientele , and whose lethal feud thwarts their daughter's and son's romance, a street pedlar who winds up in one of the places , an American who wants to have her car fixed (perhaps the most endearing character ) ,a Belgian champion who receives an avalanche of mail (he's a star).A mess.
