Monte Carlo (1930 film)

Monte Carlo is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It co-stars Jack Buchanan as a French Count Rudolph Falliere masquerading as a hairdresser and Jeanette MacDonald as Countess Helene Mara. The film is notable for introducing the song "Beyond the Blue Horizon", which was written for the film and is first performed by MacDonald and a chorus on the soundtrack as she escapes on the train through he countryside. Monte Carlo was hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the newly emerging musical film genre. The screenplay was based on the Booth Tarkington novel Monsieur Beaucaire.

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Monte Carlo
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Directed by	Ernst Lubitsch
Written by	Ernest Vajda Hans Müller-Einigen Booth Tarkington Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
Produced by	Ernst Lubitsch
Starring	Jack Buchanan Jeanette MacDonald Claud Allister
Cinematography	Victor Milner
Edited by	Merrill G. White
Music by	W. Franke Harling
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	August 27, 1930 (1930-08-27)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English