
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 »
Tag Archives: Fernandel
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 »
The well-diggers daughter (1940) Marcel Pagnol, Raimu, Fernandel, Josette Day

Rural well-digger Pascal has a pretty 18-year-old daughter Patricia who grew up in Paris; he dreams of her marrying his middle-aged partner Felipe. Read More »
The Return of Don Camillo (1953) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Édouard Delmont

After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. Read More »
Don Camillo / The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) Julien Duvivier, Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi, Comedy

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. Read More »
L’armoire volante / The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) Carlo Rim, Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Comedy, Crime

Alfred Pic is a conscientious tax inspector who lives with his authoritarian aged aunt. Read More »