Mystery Trip | |
Director: | Pierre Prévert |
Producer: | Louis Daquin Pierre Lévy-Corti Adrien Remaugé Roland Tual |
Based On: | Voyage Surprise by André Gillois |
Starring: | Martine Carol Maurice Baquet Jean Sinoël |
Music: | Joseph Kosma |
Cinematography: | Jean Bourgoin |
Editing: | Jacques Desagneaux Raymonde le Jeune |
Studio: | Coopérative Générale du Cinéma Français Productions Synops |
Distributor: | Pathé Consortium Cinéma |
Runtime: | 85 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Mystery Trip (French: Voyage surprise) is a 1947 French comedy film directed by Pierre Prévert and starring Martine Carol, Maurice Baquet and Jean Sinoël.[1] [2] [3] It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alexandre Trauner and Auguste Capelier.
A struggling coach service run by the elderly Piuff is struggling from competition. To help revive the business his grandchildren assist him to organise a mystery trip. His adversaries try to sabotage it but in a surreal series of events the disasters of the journey are taken by the passengers as all part of the enjoyment.