Hoboes in Paradise (1950)

  • NR
  • 10/07/1950 (US)
  • Comedy
  • 1h 25m

Overview

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.

Gaston Martens

Writer

René Le Hénaff

Director

Cast

Raimu's headshot

Raimu

Boule
Fernandel's headshot

Fernandel

Pons
Armand Bernard's headshot

Armand Bernard

Mortician
André Alerme's headshot

André Alerme

Saint-Pierre
Félix Oudart's headshot

Félix Oudart

Village policeman
Marcel Maupi's headshot

Marcel Maupi

Hairdresser
Piéral's headshot

Piéral

Little devil
Michèle Philippe's headshot

Michèle Philippe

Lynda

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