Fernandel
Birthday: 1903-05-08
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Biography: Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin (8 May 1903 – 26 February 1971), better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, to Désirée Bedouin and Denis Contandin, originating in Perosa Argentina, an Occitan town located in the province of Turin. He was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues. His stage name originated from his marriage to Henriette Manse, the sister of his best friend and frequent cinematic collaborator Jean Manse. So attentive was he to his wife that his mother-in-law amusingly referred to him as Fernand d'elle ("Fernand of her"). (Wikipedia)
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1958: Those Who Said No
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Les Rois de la comédie
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel wi...
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Ça colle
Two average French people decide to paste wallpaper in the dining room of one of them. The result is...
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The Return of Don Camillo
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels ...
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi...
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle thei...
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The Little World of Don Camillo
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist...
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Paris Holiday
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is...
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The Red Inn
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses th...
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The Sleepwalker
Victor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective an...
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Harvest
In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to...
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Don Camillo in Moscow
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegatio...
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Angele
Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane D...
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Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store....
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Lilac
Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernar...
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Black and White
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth ...
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The Lucky Star
Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns onl...
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Josette
Albert Durandal is unable to keep a job for more than a few days. The reason: he hums while working,...
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure ...
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Tu m'as sauvé la vie
A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept hi...
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Heartbeat
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him wi...
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Topaze
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by s...
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The Wild Oat
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother ...
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Croesus
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is...
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My Wife's Husband
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since hi...
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Sailor's Song
Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Toget...
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The Italian Straw Hat
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse e...
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L'Ordonnance malgré lui
The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match. ...
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La Terreur de la pampa
Billy Forster, a dishwasher, dreams of becoming a hero. One day, he leaves Hollywood for Texas, wher...
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Le Jugement de minuit
The mysterious vigilante Milton has warned Scotland-Yard of his intention to kill the lawyer Maurice...
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The Darling of Paris
In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused ...
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Le Chéri de sa concierge
The young Eugène Crochard, whom his entourage believes to be a billionaire following a joke publishe...
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more ...
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The Smart People of the 11th
A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem writt...
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The Virtuous Bigamist
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his qua...
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Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him ...
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Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed s...
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Le Chômeur de Clochemerle
"Easiest Profession" - Tistin is the only unemployed man in Clochemerle. Obliged to use their tax mo...
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French Touch
Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sh...
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The Most Wanted Man
A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat...
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Gangster Boss
In Paris, two scoundrels kidnap a wealthy man's preteen son, disguised as Indians, only to find he's...
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Honoré de Marseille
As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseill...
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Caught in the Foreign Legion
André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is di...
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The Sheep Has Five Legs
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fern...
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The Law Is the Law
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the...
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Ignace
Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to...
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The Well-Digger's Daughter
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant....
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The Hunting Ground
In a small village, a farmer discovers his wife has committed suicide, but suspicions of murder aris...
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L'Aventure de Cabassou
An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manag...
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Spring, Autumn and Love
Fernand Sarrazin, who runs a nougat factory to perfection, is a happy bachelor, notwithstanding the ...
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That Tender Age
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like ...
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The Last Judgment
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on...
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he th...
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One of the Legion
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by ...
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Raphaël le tatoué
Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Ro...
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Ernest the Rebel
In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you can wi...
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The Cow and I
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge...
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The Five Cents of Lavarede
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even hard...
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Life Together
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on ...
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Mademoiselle Nitouche
Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of th...
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Relax Yourself Darling
Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psyc...
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Little Nothings
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the tit...
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Adrien
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time...
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Assassin in the Phonebook
Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the fr...
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Barnabé
Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he...
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Berlingot and Company
François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child...
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Blague dans le coin
A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus bea...
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Three Feet in a Bed
In spite of his failures as a peddler, Casimir guaranteed his fiance that this time the vacuum clean...
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Dynamite Jack
Antoine Espérandieu, a French tenderfoot, lands in Windows Canyon, Arizona, a remote place under the...
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Ferdinand the Roisterer
Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageo...
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Forbidden Fruit
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young wom...
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Fun in the Barracks
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines....
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Good King Dagobert
Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay ...
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Carnival
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townsp...
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The Lafleur Cavalryman
The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that co...
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Three Sinners
A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try e...
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Jim la houlette
Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la...
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The Acrobat
After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amne...
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The Cupboard Was Bare
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver...
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St. Val's Mystery
Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the p...
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life...
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The Trip to Biarritz
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dre...
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Les Bleus de la marine
Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At ...
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Love Around the Clock
Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeo...
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The Man in the Raincoat
In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrive...
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Monsieur Hector
In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater....
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The Man in the Buick
Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is i...
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The Woman's Confidant
A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the...
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Fernandel the Dressmaker
A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. De...
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Your Money or Your Life
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdra...
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The Heroic Mr. Boniface
A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a cr...
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Le Coq du régiment
The story is about a lieutenant, nicknamed "the Rooster of the Regiment", a married man, who just ca...
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Father's Trip
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go...
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Francis the First
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is t...
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Baby's Laxative
A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and...
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Naïs
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a...
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The Free Trade Hotel
There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misundersta...
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Pétrus
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night ...
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The Mondesir Heir
Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is ...
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Rooster Heart
A man is too shy to ask a girl out and decides to kill himself. While lying in the road he is rescue...
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Les Vignes du Seigneur
Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad...
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Don Juan
Don Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of t...
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Cocagne
As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, a...
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The Kings of Sport
Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporat...
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The Changing of the Guard
During WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival...
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The best hostess
A comedy short which was the debut of Fernandel. Monsieur Pivoine and his missus are waiting for Mon...
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The Boss
Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On ...
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television ...
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Tricoche and Cacolet
Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is...
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I'm in the Revue
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go ...
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Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the...
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The Suitors Club
As playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's...
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Skylark
Adémaï is forcibly engaged to the farmer's daughter. He tries in vain to get rid of it and, weary of...
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Par habitude
Valentin Bourgeasse is an inveterate drunk. He takes the matter so far that one day he is evicted fr...
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Emile the African
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate...
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I have something to tell you
A man who claims to be the lover of a married woman goes to find the husband and reveals to him that...
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his f...
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The Amorous Garrison
In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three sold...
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The Wonderful Night
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper r...
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Hercule
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chie...
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Love and Cool Water
A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of hi...
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He
In her village, Ms. Husson seeks to put a price under a rosiere but finding no worthy young pretty g...
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Le train de 8 H 47
In 1885, La Guillaumette and Croquebol are two cavalrymen who are constantly victimised by their sup...
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Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Bric a Brac and Company
If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them...
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The Orderly
Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieuten...
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A Night of Madness
Jacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and Apaches r...
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Les Gaîtés de la finance
The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second...
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We Request an Assassin
A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do...
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No Women
Professor Branck invented Fortuna a machine providing absolute luck, fortune and success, to whoever...
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The end combine
A good man wanting to spend the afternoon with his girlfriend lets his wife think he is going to the...
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Hoboes in Paradise
In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and...
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I Have an Idea
Aubrey is a debt-ridden man. One day, he has the idea of faking his death and taking on the role o...
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A Dog's Life
Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the ...
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The Phoney War
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
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Night attack
A woman enters a police station at night to ask the commissioner to help her get rid of her dead lov...
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The Bread Peddler
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes re...
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