The Happy Road

My Favorite Kelly Movie
I watched this film more than 50 years ago on German TV and absolutely loved it!
Fortunately it had a rerun on German TV in the early 90's and later I transferred my VHS tape of "The Happy Road" to DVD.
But it was a German dubbed version and I wanted the original English track.
It was a few times on TCM with lots of drop outs during the scenes at the manouvre (Michael Redgrave) in the last third of the film, but hopefully those are not on the DVD.

Other wonderful Kelly movies that I can highly recommend:
1. The Devil makes three (filmed in Germany after WW II, with Pier Angeli)
2. Cover Girl (1944, with Rita Hayworth)
3. The 3 Musketeers (1948, with Lana Turner as Lady de Winter)
4. Les Girls (1957, with Mitzi Gaynor and Kay Kendall)
5. On The Town (1949, with Frank Sinatra and Vera-Ellen)

Ca, Ca C'est La Vie!
To the lighthearted strains of Maurice Chevalier's introductory titular song, composed by Georges Van Parys, we are ushered into this sweet comedy, directed by Francophile Gene Kelly, who takes leave of musical productions in this effort.
Here, Kelly plays a transplanted American widower trying to set up a business in Paris when he receives word that his son, Danny(Bobby Clark, whose previous credits included a young onlooker on the Hebrew's emancipation day in "The Ten Commandments")has run away from a Swiss boarding school, in which he'd been placed due to his father's frequently having to travel, and his desire to give him advantages he himself was denied.
The boy's nocturnal escape takes an unexpected turn when he is joined by schoolmate Janine Duval(a very sweet and docile looking Brigitte Fossey), who convinces a reluctant Danny to let her go with him via tears, pleading , reminding him of her ability to speak French, which will be invaluable to him on his journey...

for a happy time
I'm french. I live near the place where a part of this movie was realised. This is a refreshing moment to see these children at this time (1957) when life was so simple with the country style. So pleasant.

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