The Italian Straw Hat (film)
The Italian Straw Hat (French: Un chapeau de paille d'Italie) is a 1928 French silent film comedy directed by René Clair, and based on the 1851 play Un chapeau de paille d'Italie by Eugène Labiche and Marc Michel.
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