UNITED STATES · 1929
They Had to See Paris
Classical Hollywood
social aspiration
cultural clash
wealth and nouveau riche
family dynamics
american abroad
Synopsis
Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitab
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