Lidoire (1933) Poster

(1933)

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5/10
What shall we do with the drunken soldier?
dbdumonteil8 August 2007
Another coarse comedy in those heavenly places:the barracks.From Georges Courteline ,whose plays often deal with the joys of the military service.This is a film by Maurice Tourneur ,who made "Les Gaietés de l'Escadron" the previous year ,and it is more of the same. The only difference is that it's a short.All the action takes place in a barrack-room -with the exception of a scene in a nightclub where the squaddie is getting drunk-.When the drunken soldier ,la Biscotte, comes back ,his friend Lidoire (Fernandel) has to take care of him,which is not an easy task: he will not be rewarded for having done it.Moderately funny.

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7/10
Taking Le Biscotte
writers_reign7 July 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Despite a cast-list boasting around a dozen names this is essentially a two-hander involving Fernandel and Rivers Cadet. Writer Georges Courteline wrote several plays/novels with a military background, possibly after noting the way What Price Glory cleaned up initially on Broadway and then on screen, and Maurice Tourneur hired Courteline to work with him on the screenplay of what is more or less a vehicle for Fernandel, already in 1933 an established actor in films. In what passes for a plot Biscotte (Cadet) gets tanked in a bar, makes his way back to camp where Lidoire (Fernandel) is attempting to put in some serious sack-time. This proves impossible, natch, otherwise there's no conflict i.e. no movie. It's all pretty innocuous and has today a certain novelty value by virtue of a young Fernandel.
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