Tintin and the Blue Oranges
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Tintin and the Blue Oranges (originally Tintin et les Oranges Bleues) is 1964 French film. It was the second live-action movie based on the Tintin comic book series written and drawn by the Belgian writer-artist Hergé.
In this movie, Professor Calculus (Feliz Fernandez) developes a blue-skinned orange that has the ability to grow on any kind of land, and able to survive harsh weather (in the manner of Lue Gim Gong). AccordingProblem is, gangsters want to have their hand on this fruit...
Tintin was played in this film (and its prequel) by Jean-Pierre Talbot.
Note: The term of the "blue orange" is a moderately popular image among the French, which was originally inspired by Paul Eluard's strange quote "Earth is blue like an orange".