Paris Blues
The film sets in a city where is heaven for the black to escape the racism. Ram Bowen is black musician takes part in a jazz group with a white musician. One day, They fall in love with two beautiful tourists who have a holiday in the city.
14 February 1929, Paris, France
27 February 1930, Thomasville, Georgia, USA
30 July 1920, Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute Savoie, France
10 January 1918, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
14 November 1926, Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]
15 May 1892, Fontenay-sous-Bois, Val-de-Marne, France
August 26, 1930 in Chambéry, Savoie, France
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
20 February 1927, Miami, Florida, USA
10 August 1940, Paris, France
2 May 1922, Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
May 11, 1904 in Nointot, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
17 July 1935, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
10 June 1930, Grand-Fort Philippe, France
4 August 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
March 22, 1907 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
December 20, 2005
The jazz is hot, the romance is not so hot.
February 09, 2009
All it lacks is something to pull these parts into a sensible whole.
April 04, 2009
A low key, plotless but charming film that benefits from its appealing cast, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll, on location shooting in Paris, and Oscar-nominated jazz music from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
March 27, 2009
Newman is terrific in the picture, running both hot and cool, but he's upstaged by Woodward, who delivers stunning and surprising emotion in the final scenes. It's really worth seeing.
January 27, 2016
Four writers have adapted Harold Flender's novel, whose sole asset was the idea they have minimized ...
January 07, 2008
Within its snappy, flashy veneer is an undernourished romantic drama of a rather traditional screen school.
January 07, 2008
The story is slim but the jazz is great.
May 06, 2009
Louis Armstrong lends his legendary horn to great effect in a musical sequence in this classic gem of a movie.
July 31, 2014
Despite how square this movie about hepcats seems -- if only from the admittedly unfair vantage point of more than five decades on -- expressions of raw emotion stir Paris Blues to life.
