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From: citrin@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne Citrin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Down and Out / Saved from Drowning
Message-ID: <11947@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 14:13:22 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 14:13:22 1986
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In article <800@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
[in response to statement that "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" was based
on Jean Renoir's 1932 film "Boudu Saved from Drowning."]
>
>I have seen neither film, but they both sound like derivatives of John
>Morton's excellent two-man farce, "A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion."
>Morton is best known as the author of "Cox and Box," which is probably
>the second most popular farce ever written.  It was later set to music
>by Arthur Sullivan.
>-- 

Actually, Renoir's film was based on a stage play of the same name by
Rene Fauchois.  Both the play and the film starred Michel Simon as
Boudu, the bum, and, although I've never seen the film, I'm told that
he overacted terribly in it.

Incidentally, Renoir changed the ending of the play.  In the play, Boudu
is finally domesticated and ends up "improved" by the help the bookseller
gives him.  In the film, Boudu remains completely unchanged at the end.
I won't say which ending Maszurski uses.

Wayne Citrin
(ucbvax!citrin)