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Emile the African

May 19, 1948 · 1h 25m
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Adventure

PLOT

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.

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CAST

Fernandel
Emile Boulard
Alexandre Rignault
Ladislas Stany
Noëlle Norman
Suzanne Boulard
Félix Oudart
Romi, the director
Bernard Lajarrige
Daniel Cormier
Roland Armontel
Dibier
Jacqueline Dor
Martine Boulard
Madeleine Lambert
Madame Cormier
Directed by Robert Vernay

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
FR
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Country
FR

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