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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1488

The Misadventure of a French Gentleman Without Pants at the Zandvoort Beach

19056 minNetherlands

Comedy Adventure

Synopsis

A visitor removes his trousers to keep them dry at the beach and attracts a policeman's attention. His attempt to escape in disguise draws an expanding crowd through Zandvoort.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 5:30
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Eye Filmmuseum · Public domain

Cast

Willy Mullens

DirectorsWilly Mullens

Behind the scenes

Willy Mullens played the visitor as well as directing the location shoot. The short survives as an early example of Dutch fiction filmmaking built around a public-place chase.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

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Willy Mullens — Willy Mullens; http://phr.franswilbrink.nl/mullens.htm · Public domain

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