So Long at the Fair (1950)

May 1889. Like many others, young adult siblings Johnny and Victoria Barton, British nationals who have only each other in the world, have arrived in Paris, they traveling from Naples via Marseilles, for the World's Exposition. While Victoria is a bundle of excitement for their forty-eight hour stay in Paris for their one full day, the opening day the day after their arrival, at the Exposition, Johnny is preoccupied by all the logistics of their extended vacation. The one day changes one-hundred eighty degrees when first thing in the morning, Victoria cannot only not locate Johnny, but there is no indication of he ever having even been at the hotel where they are staying at all. The hotel owner, Mme. Hervé, her brother Narcisse, the front desk clerk and bellboy who waited on them deny that Victoria came with anyone to the hotel, his name is not in the hotel register and even the hotel room where he was supposedly in, number 19, has totally disappeared, Mme. Hervé showing Victoria that room 19 is nothing more than a lavatory. Beyond speaking to the British Consul and the police who can do nothing to help her until she comes up with some proof that Johnny not only exists but was accompanying her, a panicked Victoria tries to find anyone, especially at the hotel, who may be able to corroborate that she was with Johnny. She may have found that someone in George Hathaway, a fellow British national living in Paris eking out a living as an artist, he who has some friends staying at the hotel also for the Exposition. Victoria and George together try and find out what exactly happened to Johnny and why Mme. Hervé and others at the hotel are lying about his existence.

So Long at the Fair is a drama movie featuring Jean Simmons and directed by Antony Darnborough.

So Long at the Fair is currently streaming on Criterion Channel.