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Fric-Frac (1939) Maurice Lehmann, Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty
Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. Read More »
Angele (1934) Marcel Pagnol, Orane Demazis, Fernandel, Henri Poupon
Angèle, the daughter of Clarius, a farmer in the mountain of Provence, lives with her parents and their valet Saturnin. Read More »
The Sheep Has Five Legs AKA Le mouton à cinq pattes (1954) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Andrex
The matchless French farceur Fernandel essays six different roles in The Sheep Has Five Legs. Read More »
The Most Wanted Man AKA L’ennemi public n° 1 (1953) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Louis Seigner
Joe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk Read More »
Paris Holiday (1958) Gerd Oswald, Bob Hope, Fernandel, Anita Ekberg
American comedian Bob Hunter, on a luxury liner to France with French counterpart Fernandel Read More »
The Cow and I AKA La vache et le prisonnier (1959) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Pierre-Louis, Ellen Schwiers
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way. Read More »
Naïs (1943) Raymond Leboursier, Fernandel, Jacqueline Pagnol, Raymond Pellegrin
Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin Read More »
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves AKA Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs (1954) Jacques Becker, Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche
Rich oriental lord Cassim’s cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave Read More »
Gangster Boss AKA Le grand chef (1959) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Papouf
In Paris, scoundrel mates Paolo and Antoine Venturen hope to get rich quick by asking ransom fro rich Mr. Jumelin’s preteen son Eric. Read More »
Three Sinners AKA Meurtres (1950) Richard Pottier, Fernandel, Mireille Perrey, Jacques Varennes
Noel Annequin is the black sheep of a social-climbing bourgeois family who married Read More »
The Law Is the Law (1958) Christian-Jaque, Fernandel, Totò, René Génin
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. Read More »
The Red Inn (1951) Claude Autant-Lara, Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. Read More »
The Last Judgement (1961) Vittorio De Sica, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel
A mighty and mysterious voice echoes in the sky of Naples: it announces the start of the Last Judgement, at six in the evening. Read More »
Forbidden Fruit (1952) Henri Verneuil, Fernandel, Françoise Arnoul, Jacques Castelot
Charles Pellegrin, 40-year-old country doctor, buys a practice in Arles, a provincial town near Marseille. Read More »