Take the Road

Take the Road

1936 · 87 min · ★ 6.0 · Comedy

Jacques is a jolly bachelor who lives a wild life with his a mistress Wanda and all he wishes is to go on living the way he does. But Father won't allow. He demands that Jacques get married. More or less reluctantly, Jacques decides to comply but on the way to his father's home - where he is to meet the bride Dad has chosen for him - the young man comes across the charming Simone and falls in love with her at first sight. He elopes her, determined to ignore his progenitor's orders. Little does he know that Simone, the girl of his heart, is none other than the one he was supposed to marry...

Directed by Jean Boyer · Written by Jean Boyer

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Georges Tabet Potopoto- le motocycliste
Jacques Pills Jacques
Claude May Simone
Marcel Simon Le comte
Jane Loury
Milly Mathis
Monette Dinay
Madeleine Suffel
Lucien Callamand
Edouard Hamel
Pierre Chertier
Guy-Lou

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