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- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelZsa Zsa GaborLouis SeignerJoe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clothes to kids, his boss is adamant against his wearing glasses as cowboys and glasses don't go together. After a series of near-blind misadventures, Joe is fired. Dejected, he goes to the movies and seats himself next to a dangerous gangster and, when he leaves, takes the man's raincoat. In the subway, on a crowded train, he removes a heavy object from coat pocket. It's a gun and the passengers are in a panic and Joe is arrested, and the police announce they have captured Public Enemy No. 1. The leader's mob, unaware that it isn't their boss the police have, plan an escape, with most of the plans made by gun moll Lola (Zsa Zsa Gabor.) Soon, Joe finds both the police and the gangsters after him.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsFernandelDanielle DarrieuxJean-Pierre MarielleMr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a charitable organization which offers underprivileged children holidays in Switzerland. However, Mr. Jo is in love with a pretty widow and, in order to marry her, he is willing to get involved in a hold-up again. And "the man with the Buick", who seemed so honourable, will surprise the inhabitants of Honfleur when Inspector Menard reveals his secret activities.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MockyStarsFernandelHeinz RühmannJean PoiretPétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelJean-Pierre MarielleJean LefebvreHélène and François have been a perfect couple for twelve years. Hélène discovers psychoanalysis with Doctor Kougloff. She is convinced that her husband's apparent balance hides horrible tragedies.
- DirectorFernandelStarsFernandelJacqueline PagnolBernadette LangeIs it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist
- DirectorFernandelStarsFernandelPaulette DubostHuguette VivierAdrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that...
- DirectorMaurice LabroStarsFernandelPerrette PradierEliane D'AlmeidaA stand -up comic,down on his luck,winds up in Las Perlas ,a town where gambling is king and where there are ten slot machines for one inhabitant .
- DirectorLéo JoannonStarsFernandelGeorges ChamaratHenri CrémieuxFernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it leads to several murders. Although he is not a killer and essentially innocent, there does not seem to be very much that Albert can do to convince others of the truth.
- DirectorBernard BorderieStarsFernandelBarbara LaageGeorges WilsonA modest professor of philosophy plunges in spite of himself into the world of the underworld, when he goes to Paris, where he must attend a congress.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelSylva KoscinaUgo TognazziA vet used to treat animals; now he treats their masters.
- DirectorClément DuhourStarsPierre BrasseurDanielle DarrieuxSophie DesmaretsThe writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelPierre DuxSimone ValèreNow Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelNadia GrayMadeleine BarbuléeSénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
- DirectorJulien DuvivierStarsFernandelJacques DubyJean RigauxIn the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrives after a crime. Observed by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murderer before is name is mentioned publicly, especially in front of his wife.
- DirectorMaurice RégameyStarsFernandelAndrexFrancis BlancheAn ethnologist comes to interview a Marseillais of old stock.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsFernandelCarmen SevillaRoland ArmontelFilm based on the myth of Don Juan.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelSuzy DelairFred PasqualiA modest tailor the women find irresistible, inherits a fashion house in financial difficulty. Deciding to save it, he prepares a great collection. But after his wife discovers his relationship with one of the mannequins, how can he prevent a scandal without losing both of them?.
- DirectorMaurice LabroStarsFernandelAndrexGaby AndréVictor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine : Victor is both a store detective and a - shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you). And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up.
- DirectorSacha GuitryStarsSacha GuitryFernandelLana MarconiA wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over by a horse drawn cart.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsNino TarantoIsa BarzizzaIrasema DiliánGood-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...
- DirectorRichard PottierStarsFernandelMireille PerreyJacques VarennesNoel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married for love and stayed in the country while his professional brothers were improving their social position. When his beloved wife, dying of an incurable disease, begs him to end her misery, he finally agrees, but his desire to atone for his "crime" runs afoul of his heartless family, and all would be lost without his rebellious niece, played by 22-year-old Jeanne Moreau.
- DirectorRichard PottierStarsFernandelGermaine MonteroBernard LajarrigeIn spite of his failures as a peddler, Casimir guaranteed his fiance that this time the vacuum cleaners will work for good. But he's still unsuccessful until he go to the appartment of Paul-Andre, a painter who was engaged by correspondence to a rich south-American woman. That's exactly when she arrive armed with a gun infuriated after she had received a rupture letter from the man she had never seen. She mistakenly took Casimir as her painter lover. Casimir his ready to flee until he learned she owned many hotels, a thousand rooms in fact. "A thousand rooms, a thousand vacuum cleaners", he suddenly think.
- DirectorMaurice LabroStarsFernandelAndrexGaston Orbal
- DirectorMaurice ClocheStarsFernandelGisèle AlcéeJean TémersonTulipe works in a printing house and he is in love with the owner's daughter who is to marry a middle-age man who stutters.
- DirectorMarc AllégretStarsFernandelSimone SimonMarcel DalioPetrus,a Montmartre photographer,is accidentally wounded by Migo,a dancer at the Frou Frou night club,when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue,a counterfeiter.Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
- DirectorGilles GrangierStarsFernandelMicheline FranceyAndré FouchéAn architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manages to keep au courant with what is going on.
- DirectorRené Le HénaffStarsFernandelArlette GuttinguerGermaine KerjeanDésiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.
- DirectorErnst NeubachStarsFernandelArmand BernardClaude Chenard
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelJacqueline PagnolPauline CartonDardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
- DirectorHenri VerneuilStarsFernandelGino CerviPapoufIn Paris, scoundrel mates Paolo and Antoine Venturen hope to get rich quick by asking ransom fro rich Mr. Jumelin's preteen son Eric. Masquerading as Indians, the scamp's favorite game, does the trick. They soon learn such bratty rascal is more trouble then he's worth. The boy's a P.I. instead of paying, and it gets worse.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelMaria MaubanHenri VilbertTistin (Fernandel) is the only unemployed of Clochemerle. This provoques animosity amongst the village given that he frequents regularly Zozote (Ginette Leclerc), the only "respectable" one from the village. But Tistin is in reality in love with a beautiful widow named Jeannette (Maria Mauban).
- DirectorYvan NoéStarsGaby MorlayFernandelCharles TrenetThe one thing man will never master is Time.It reigns over the world and from time to time an hour comes to man's rescue.We will follow one of them,Hora.It's a series of little stories in which we meet a worker,a state employee, an athlete,a mother who sacrifices her little boy for her lover,a famous singer who welcomes an old lady in his place, a man under a sentence of death who tries to play for time .But there's nothing to do when the time comes.
- DirectorMaurice CammageStarsFernandelJosseline GaëlTramelBourdillon is the only teacher in Mister Calumet's boarding- school for girls ;his headmaster ,who keeps on stuffing himself with food ,soon dies of indigestion.The teacher ,in love with his wife, woos her :but alas,she was in awe of her (not handsome at all, though) late hubby and , deceived by the evil bursar ,she believes in metempsychosis and that the faithful departed is reincarnated as a dog she treats as a human being ,much to Bourdillon's disappointment .To conquer her love, he goes as far as to disguise himself as a woman to take her exam.
- DirectorFernand RiversStarsFernandelSuzy PrimFernand CharpinFrançois and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found by the side of the road. Although the two men are often at each other's throats they are the best friends, getting on well with the other fairground people. But when they defend Lisa, the fortune teller's daughter against Dédé, a thug who pesters her, they provoke his anger. Dédé sets fire to the two friends' stand and they are forced to take the road.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsFernandelRaymond AimosPierre StéphenModeste works in an automobile factory. Because he needs an alibi in front of his boss, he invents a twin brother, Raphael.
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelJanine DarceyAndrex
- DirectorJacques Daniel-NormanStarsFernandelRobert Le ViganMeg LemonnierProfessor Moucherotte is about to discover a revolutionary fuel ,the formula of which is coveted by industrialists who would be ruined by this new product ,as well as an impostor,Bontagues,who would like to claim all the merit of the invention for himself ;the scientist dies,and everybody believes that his assistant holds the key to the secret whereas this dreamer,Fleuret ,actually tries to make flowers immortal.And now the poor guy is chased by the police and the villains.
- DirectorMaurice GleizeStarsFernandelLouise CarlettiAnnie FranceAs playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's daughter.
- DirectorMaurice CammageStarsFernandelDenise GreyRognoni
- DirectorPierre ColombierStarsFernandelFrédéric DuvallèsGinette LeclercTwo friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is hired by Van der Pouf, a rich banker who wants him to watch over his wife Bernardine while the latter, on her part, seeks the services of Thicoche...
- DirectorAlexander EswayStarsFernandelPaulette DubostClaude MayBarnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he is confused with the Count of Marengo whom Mme Petit-Durand wants to give as husband to her daughter, who has already made her choice.
- DirectorAlexander EswayStarsFernandelGaby MorlayPierre BrasseurHercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
- DirectorPierre ColombierStarsFernandelAlice TissotSaturnin FabreIgnace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to perform his military service, he was appointed colonel and had to take care of the latter's terrible wife.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsFernandelMona GoyaAlexandre RignaultHonorin (Fernandel) is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
- DirectorChristian-JaqueStarsFernandelJosette ContandinLucien RozenbergAlbert Durandal is unable to keep a job for more than a few days. The reason: he hums while working, which invariably irritates his superiors. He is not hired as a singer for all that, as no music producer is prepared to bet on him. At the moment he is as free as a (singing) bird and accepts to take care of Josette, the little daughter of Jeanne, his neighbor, who is sick and has to go to a sanitarium. One day, while walking down the street, he helps an old man who has an attack. The latter happens to be an influential millionaire. And with a heart of gold into the bargain : he helps Albert to make it in the singing career. And as Jeanne has recovered, he can marry her and adopt Josette.
- DirectorJack ForresterStarsFernandelRaoul MarcoGaston Modot
- DirectorAndré BerthomieuStarsFernandelMireille PerreyJacques VarennesFamous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to boost the sales of their novels.
- DirectorRené StiStarsFernandelAndré AlermeFélix OudartFerdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageot, is mostly busy with his mistresses but comes to be worried with his young and outgoing daughter.
- DirectorAlbert ValentinStarsFernandelElvire PopescoJules BerryBienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de Mondésir. The Baron dies and in happy amazement, Bienaimé finds he is the sole heir to the deceased's estate. But he should be careful, for two crooks, Waldemar and Erika, are after his newly-acquired wealth...
- DirectorJean BoyerStarsFernandelJean TissierThérèse DornyAfter a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsGeorgiusPierre FinalyJacqueline Jacquet
- DirectorAndré ChotinStarsMadeleine GuittySuzette ComteMarfa d'HervillyA wealthy antique dealer, having started in the flea market in the past, settles his son there, an unrepentant nuke, to teach him how to work. There he meets a treasure: his future wife.