Mystery Trip Explained

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.

Synopsis

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.

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References

  1. Goble p.346
  2. Rège p.435
  3. https://www.unifrance.org/film/5830/voyage-surprise

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