Synopsis
After the triumph of “Don Camillo”, Fernandel met his accomplice Marcel Pagnol one last time for a huge farce adapted from the play by Emile Mazaud. This story of a magnificent cuckold is a “joke” that touches on human feelings, amplified by the southern style. This comedy, directed by Henri Verneuil, shocked some spectators when it was released in 1953. Yet Fernandel is here at his best: “a great actor who leaves nothing in the shade and plays his face like a master violinist. Saturnin Fabre, as a Moliere psychoanalyst, gives him the line, and the legendary Pauline Carton is not left out.
Technical data
- Genre : Comedy
- Duration : 1h30
- Director: Henri Verneuil, assisted by Christian Gaudin and Pierre Arlen
- Screenplay: after the play byEmile Mazaud ” Dardamelle
- Adaptation and dialogue: Marcel Pagnol
- Set design : Robert Giordani
- Photography : André Germain
- Editing: Raymonde Bianchi, Jean Bianchi
- Music : Raymond Legrand (editions : Le troubadour)
- Lyricist : Jean Manse
- Operator : Walter Wottitz, assisted by Michel Bouyer and Clément Maure
- Sound : Marcel Royné
- Recorder : Jean Zay
- Boom Operator : Paul Zaccaro
- Directors: Louis Manella and Léon Bourrely
- Outside director : Henri Garcia
- Script-girl : Régina Hernou
- Photographer : Gaston Thonnart
- Accessory designers : Marcel Landrain, Paul Latière
- Technical officer : Bruno Négri
- Make-up : Lina Gallet
- Production company: Société Nouvelle des Films Marcel Pagnol
- Production manager: Marcel Pagnol
- Director of production : Charles Pons, Jean Martinetti
- Production manager : Antoine Rossi
- Production Secretary: Annette Millet and Gilette Nicolas
- Shooting : studios in Marseille, outside in Aix-en-Provence and in Marseille
Distribution
- Fernandel: Dardamelle
- Jacqueline Pagnol: Francine Dardamelle
- Manuel Gary: Arthur
- Pauline Carton: Toinette
- Saturnin Fabre: Doctor Caberlot
- Mireille Perrey: Isabelle
- Géo Dorlys: Léveillé
- Henri Arius: the mayor
- Antonin Berval: the police commissioner
- Renée Steve Passeur: the Baroness of Lambrequin
- Nina Myral: the mother-in-law
- Charles Blavette: Lambrequin
- Josselin: Rostaing
- Arnaudy: the priest
- Bréols: a customer
- Jean Mello: a customer
- Jean Panisse: Bacaral, a client
- Michel Marsay: Mr. Arthur
- Marcel Raine
- Max Mourron
- and with the help of the carnival of Aix-en-Provence
