Princess Tam Tam

Princess Tam Tam
by Edmond T. Gréville

Princess Tam Tam
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Actor: Albert Préjean, Georges Péclet, Germaine Aussey, Josephine Baker, Robert Arnoux
Director: Edmond T. Gréville
Brand: Kino International
Cinematographer: Georges Benoît
Editor: Jean Feyte
Producer: Arys Nissotti
Writer: Pepito Abatino
Writer: Yves Mirande
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 77 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 4012
Studio: Kino International
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  • PRINCESS TAM TAM (DVD MOVIE)

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DVD Review: So bad it's good
Summary: 3 Stars

I used to think that no movies in the world beat 1930s-style Hollywood films--especially the ones featuring big musical and dance scenes--for sheer camp. But after watching "Princess Tam Tam," I realized that the French of the 1930s were pretty good at making movies so bad that, eighty-odd years later, their very badness makes them totally fun to watch.

"Tam Tam" is formulaic, as one would expect: debonair and worldly novelist is jealous of his wife, so he fakes a romance with a wild girl of north Africa--played by Josephine Baker--to make his wife jealous in turn. Baker plays a street urchin whom the novelist pretends is a "jungle" princess and introduces to Parisian high society as such. Predictably, the charade is exposed, but--also predictably--everyone lives happily ever after anyway.

There are some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments in the film. The guy who plays the novelist's sidekick, a sort of Oliver Hardy character, is really a good comedic actor. But for the most part the dialogue is strained and the editing is particularly bad. Jumps between splices occur nonstop.

The film was made, one suspects, to give Josephine Baker a stage. She'd made two earlier French films, the silent "Siren of the Tropic" and "Zou Zou," a much better talkie in which she sings the song made famous by the later film "Frida." But "Tam Tam" doesn't give Baker much of an opportunity to show her stuff. She sings a couple of numbers, which is good. But her two dance scenes are continuously interrupted by the camera panning the crowd of onlookers. And Baker looks old and a bit tired in the film. She tries real hard to be the vivacious and spirited gal that France fell in love with, but can't quite pull it off in this film.

So the film is pretty much an utter cinematic disaster. But it's great fun to watch.
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