Le Roi des Champs-Élysées

Le Roi des Champs-Élysées is a 1934 French comedy starring Buster Keaton. This French-made film has Keaton playing two roles, as an aspiring actor, and as an American gangster. A closing gag has the typically deadpan Keaton breaking out into a big grin after being kissed.

Directed byMax Nosseck

Written by

• Arnold Lippschitz
• Yves Mirande

Starring

• Buster Keaton
• Raymond Blot
• Lucien Callamand
• Paul Clerget
• Colette Darfeuil
• Paulette Dubost

CinematographyRobert Lefebvre

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Le Roi des Champs-Élysées
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Directed by	Max Nosseck
Written by	Arnold Lippschitz Yves Mirande
Starring	Buster Keaton Raymond Blot Lucien Callamand Paul Clerget Colette Darfeuil Paulette Dubost
Cinematography	Robert Lefebvre
Edited by	Jean Delannoy
Music by	Joe Hajos
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures (France)
Release date	11 December 1934 (1934-12-11)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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Almost all of Keaton's dialogue, in French, is dubbed. The film was never theatrically released in the United States.