Emile the African
Émile l'africain
Release: 1948-05-19
·Runtime: 85m
·★ 7.0
Adventure
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.
Production Countries
France
Cast
Palmyre Levasseur
as The dresser
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
as Passer-by (uncredited)
Fernandel
as Emile Boulard
Jean Hébey
as The notary's clerk
Émile Riandreys
Eugène Compain
Georges Sellier
Albert Broquin
as An extra
Bernard Lajarrige
as Daniel Cormier
Roland Armontel
as Dibier
Henri Coutet
as The actor
Pierre Labry
as The boss
Lud Germain
as Bimbo
André Marnay
as The notary
Alexandre Rignault
as Ladislas Stany
Noëlle Norman
as Suzanne Boulard
Félix Oudart
as Romi, the director
