Can-Can (1960)

Directors

Walter Lang

Cast

Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse

The story

In the Montmartre district of Paris, a dance known as the can-can, considered lewd, is performed nightly at the Bal du Paradis, a cabaret where Simone Pistache is both a dancer and the proprietor. On a night when her lawyer and lover, François Durnais, brings his good friend, chief magistrate Paul Barrière, to the café, a raid is staged by police. Claudine and the other dancers are placed under arrest and brought before the court.

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