Product Details

• Actors: Albert Préjean, Geymond Vital, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Ollivier, Alex Allin
• Directors: René Clair
• Writers: René Clair, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel
• Producers: Alexandre Kamenka
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Connoisseur Video
• VHS Release Date: July 13, 1994
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6303593488
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,778 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A classic silent farce, February 20, 2004

By	Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

"The Italian Straw Hat" (France, 1927)
Director Rene Clair apparently pioneered the "screwball comedy" genre with this feature-length silent, in which a nervous groom unwittingly finds himself in the middle of a romantic triangle, when his horse stops for a snack and eats the hat of a married woman off having a fling with a belligerent army officer... The officer badgers our hero into finding a replacement, which is all very well and fine... except that today is his wedding day, and the guests are all waiting for him to say "I do!" The first half of the film is a little hard to follow, but once it picks up steam, this film is a delight. My enjoyment of the movie was hampered somewhat by the horridly inappropriate soundtrack to the 1991 Connoiseur/Film Preserve edition, which was composed by Emilio Kauderer, and which was so awful and distracting that I had to watch the film with the sound off. Still, it turned out to be a fun movie. By the way, the best role in the film is clearly that of he groom's aggrieved, harried valet, who sees all the chaos unfold at every every turn -- watch for him!