Emile the African (1948)

  • NR
  • 05/19/1948 (FR)
  • Adventure
  • 1h 25m

Overview

Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.

Robert Vernay

Director

Cast

Fernandel's headshot

Fernandel

Emile Boulard
Alexandre Rignault's headshot

Alexandre Rignault

Ladislas Stany
Noëlle Norman's headshot

Noëlle Norman

Suzanne Boulard
Félix Oudart's headshot

Félix Oudart

Romi, the director
Bernard Lajarrige's headshot

Bernard Lajarrige

Daniel Cormier
Roland Armontel's headshot

Roland Armontel

Dibier
Jacqueline Dor's headshot

Jacqueline Dor

Martine Boulard
Madeleine Lambert's headshot

Madeleine Lambert

Madame Cormier

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