The French, They Are a Funny Race

The French, They Are a Funny Race known in France as Les Carnets du Major Thompson The Notebooks of Major Thompson and in the U.K. as The Diary of Major Thompson is a 1955 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, based on the novel by Pierre Daninos, and starring Jack Buchanan and Martine Carol.

Major Thompson Jack Buchanan is a crusty, middleaged English officer, retired and widowed and living in Paris, who tries to adjust to the French way of life. He falls in love with frivolous but alluring Martine Martine Carol, and then marries her. The question is, will their child be raised as a proper Englishman, or a swinging Frenchman?The film was based on a popular column by Pierre Daninos in Le Figaro. Daninos would write as fictitious English Major Marmaduke Thompson who would observe the French. Daninos then turned these columns into a book The Notebooks of Major Thompson. ........

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