Theater 1, T1 (With piano accompaniment by Stuart Oderman)1928. France. Written and directed by René Clair. Adapted from the play by Eugène Labiche. With Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory, Maurice de Féraudy, Françoise Rosay. In Clair’s hands, a one-act comedy about a timid lawyer who wants to win the hand of a young woman (whose father wants to marry her to a brute) becomes pure cinema. Silent. 73 min.
