LE ROI
(Films de France)
T’S a pity that an attempt was not made to dub good English dialogue on to this new Maurice Chevalier comedy. A lot of the fun manages to filter through the sub-titles, but inevitably much is lost to the ordinary filmgoer. It might be argued, and cogently, too, that something essentially Gallic would be lost in any translation, however good, but at least it would have saved us from such flat-footed phrases as "In my position I should have a celebrated girlfriend." The sub-titles, in fact, are bad. But the old boulevardier himself, all things considered, is not bad at all. If he is not the spring-heeled Jacques he once was, his step is still jaunty; if the silhouette has thickened, the voice carols as glottally and the eye roves as mischievously as ever. In this first post-war appearance he plays the part of a pre1914 Middle European monarch on a State visit to France, and in one way and another (but mostly in the one way) le roi s’amuse.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 17
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175LE ROI New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 632, 10 August 1951, Page 17
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