The Happy Road
Two adolescent student schoolmates, Danny and Janine, (Bobby Clark and Brigitte Fossey) escape without passports from their Swiss private school and make for Paris. They steal a paddle boat to cross a…
The Happy Road
Two adolescent student schoolmates, Danny and Janine, (Bobby Clark and Brigitte Fossey) escape without passports from their Swiss private school and make for Paris. They steal a paddle boat to cross a lake and they sneak past a border guard as they cross to France. Starting from Paris, their respective parents, Mike (Gene Kelly), a widowed American father and Suzanne (Barbara Laage), a French divorced mother, together embark on a wide journey around the countryside, getting local police involved in finding them, with many whimsical situations, and encountering military maneuvers and a bicycle race. Suzanne is eager to get to Monte Carlo, and Mike back to Paris to attend to an import/export business as manager. First thing, they attempt to rent a car in vain. A good Samaritan drives them to the next town. Meanwhile, a truck drops off the hitchhiking children at a country road. Then, Janine discovers she left all Danny's bundle of food on the truck. They stop to play ball with a group of children. The children agree to help sneak them some of their picnic food past their guardians, hide them aboard their truck to reach the next town where their cousins will help them further on their journey. Their parents hitch a ride on the back of a policeman's motorcycle. Janine and Danny sneak onto a barge boat, hauling cargo. The policeman proudly announces they have caught the children. But in the police station, they find they are impostors, wearing their clothes. To improve their disguise, Janine now has Danny cut off her long blonde hair. Overnight, the parents stay in a hotel and begin to find things in common. Suzanne now shares she is engaged to be married, in two days' time in Monte Carlo. They encounter the British Army on military maneuvers, who seem clueless to help them. The children come across a mute woodsman who feeds them supper. Locked in a cell overnight, the parents are growing desperate. Danny and Janine hitch a ride on an American radio reporters' vehicle during their coverage of a cross-country bicycle race. The parents find a photo of their children on the front page of the French newspaper showing the bike race. The race arrives in Paris. Their parents arrive in an Army Jeep soon after. Despondent, the parents relax indoors. Mike discovers a cabinet of children's toys which seems to flummox him. He opens the bedroom door to find their children snoozing peacefully on the bed. After a happy reunion, the parent hug their children.
The Happy Road
Comedy
Film Details
Two adolescent student schoolmates, Danny and Janine, (Bobby Clark and Brigitte Fossey) escape without passports from their Swiss private school and make for Paris. They steal a paddle boat to cross a lake and they sneak past a border guard as they cross to France. Starting from Paris, their respective parents, Mike (Gene Kelly), a widowed American father and Suzanne (Barbara Laage), a French divorced mother, together embark on a wide journey around the countryside, getting local police involved in finding them, with many whimsical situations, and encountering military maneuvers and a bicycle race.
Suzanne is eager to get to Monte Carlo, and Mike back to Paris to attend to an import/export business as manager. First thing, they attempt to rent a car in vain. A good Samaritan drives them to the next town.
Meanwhile, a truck drops off the hitchhiking children at a country road. Then, Janine discovers she left all Danny's bundle of food on the truck. They stop to play ball with a group of children.
The children agree to help sneak them some of their picnic food past their guardians, hide them aboard their truck to reach the next town where their cousins will help them further on their journey. Their parents hitch a ride on the back of a policeman's motorcycle. Janine and Danny sneak onto a barge boat, hauling cargo.
The policeman proudly announces they have caught the children. But in the police station, they find they are impostors, wearing their clothes. To improve their disguise, Janine now has Danny cut off her long blonde hair.
Overnight, the parents stay in a hotel and begin to find things in common. Suzanne now shares she is engaged to be married, in two days' time in Monte Carlo. They encounter the British Army on military maneuvers, who seem clueless to help them.
The children come across a mute woodsman who feeds them supper. Locked in a cell overnight, the parents are growing desperate. Danny and Janine hitch a ride on an American radio reporters' vehicle during their coverage of a cross-country bicycle race.
The parents find a photo of their children on the front page of the French newspaper showing the bike race. The race arrives in Paris. Their parents arrive in an Army Jeep soon after.
Despondent, the parents relax indoors. Mike discovers a cabinet of children's toys which seems to flummox him. He opens the bedroom door to find their children snoozing peacefully on the bed.
After a happy reunion, the parent hug their children..