Un homme lors de l'allocution politique (uncredited)
Volviendo de Italia, Henri Roubier recoge a una elegante autoestopista, y también a un joven. Tras un brusco giro, el coche y sus pasajeros acaban sobre la copa de un pino que hay en un acantilado. Atrapados entre el mar y el cielo, su situación es incómoda cuanto menos...
Billiard hall watchman
Mientras Corey sale de prisión tras cumplir condena en una cárcel francesa, Vogel, un criminal custodiado por el temible comisario Mattei, escapa del tren en el que viajan. Después de robar a un antiguo socio, Corey se encuentra con Vogel y le propone formar equipo para realizar un meticuloso robo de joyas.
Un Client (uncredited)
Un grupo de atracadores trata de conseguir el robo perfecto. Uno de ellos llevaba 15 años alejado del oficio, pero, cuando un antiguo colega aparece, no puede resistir la tentación de un nuevo golpe. Todo está medido al detalle, pero... (FILMAFFINITY)
Le serveur du restaurant (uncredited)
Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone, Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather."
Spectator at Charles Aznavour's recital
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Un consommateur (uncredited)
Tres americanos disparan sobre un transeúnte. El inspector Quevedos asiste al homicidio y alerta a la policía, pero cuando llegan, el cuerpo desaparece. Poco después, Quevedos es raptado por los gángsters que quieren saber qué se hizo con el cuerpo. Maigret (interpretado por tercera y última vez por Jean Gabin) lleva la investigación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Le garagiste (uncredited)
An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.
Las aventuras amorosas de un hombre tímido. (FILMAFFINITY)
un homme à la messe
Una mujer seductora que recoge a un ex presidiario de la calle, lo lleva a su casa, donde no hay ascensor pero sí montacargas; al volver a la casa tras dar un paseíto, y luego de una fogosa escena de pasión en el montacargas, encuentran un cadáver en el piso… cadáver que desaparecerá misteriosamente cuando el ex presidiario vuelva al piso, envolviéndole en una pesadilla.
Le conférencier
Photographer Henri Barbier is lured by his old friend Barbara to fake the theft of her jewels. It turns out that he is suspected of murder and extortion, while Barbara and her lover are the culprits, which is eventually revealed.
Un greffier au tribunal (uncredited)
Dominique Marceau es juzgada por el asesinato de Gilbert Tellier, un músico lleno de talento recién salido del Conservatorio. Los abogados intentan encontrar un móvil que explique su conducta. ¿Pasión, venganza o accidente? Entre los testigos están los conocidos de Gilbert, los antiguos amantes de Dominique y, además, su hermana Anne, estudiante de violín y prometida de Gilbert. Los datos que van proporcionando los testigos permiten reconstruir las personalidades de Dominique y Gilbert y son más útiles que las elocuentes alegaciones de los abogados.
Guest of the hostel (uncredited)
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Le serveur (uncredited)
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.
House Painter (uncredited)
En un barrio moderno y anódino, donde todo está excesivamente organizado, viven monsieur Arpel, su esposa y su hijo Gérard, que se aburre soberanamente. La llegada de su tío, monsieur Hulot, un personaje soñador y lleno de fantasía, alterará ese mundo tan aséptico, sobre todo porque no tarda en convertirse en el mejor amigo de su sobrino.
Le secrétaire de mairie
Adaptación de la novela de Victor Hugo, con Jean Gabin en el papel de Jean Valjean.
a regular at the café (uncredited)
Juju, un borracho patán que siente la necesidad de ser importante para alguien, y su amigo El Artista son forzados a punta de pistola a alojar a un fugitivo, Pierre Barbier, en la casa destartalada de Juju. La necesidad de ser necesitado es tal en Juju que deja de beber y cuida de Pierre. Pero un día Juju descubre que Pierre ha estado haciendo el amor con su chica María....
Un voisin célibataire (uncredited)
Un consommateur
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
Le bistrot (uncredited)
El joven periodista Louis Commandeur multiplica las intrigas y las traiciones con tal de lograr sus propósitos.
Restaurant Patron
En un balneario de la costa atlántica, los veraneantes son incapaces de apartarse de sus rutinarias costumbres urbanas. Hasta que llega monsieur Hulot al volante de su viejo cacharro y rompe la calma estival. Para gran alegría de los niños, Hulot ofrecerá a los huéspedes del hotel unas vacaciones inolvidables.
Un cheminot en grève (uncredited)
Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe then decides to compete in the hope of telling the thousands of listeners what he thinks of the industrialist. A blow on the head having given him a gift of second sight, the competitor becomes impeccable and wins astronomical sums to the great despair of Bourdinet. Everything will work out in the end and Philippe will be able to marry Jacqueline.
Un voisin / Un laquais / Un révolutionnaire (uncredited)
Un modesto profesor de piano opta por evadirse a través de sus sueños de la triste realidad que lo rodea. En primer lugar se traslada al reinado de Luis XIII. En cada una de las épocas que visita obtendrá el amor de una mujer.
A spectator at the entrance to the Vél d'hiv (uncredited)
Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a woman who, when he kisses her, suddenly endows him with prodigious strength.
Le Braconnier
The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
A man at the fair (uncredited)
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Louis XVII (the king who never reigned). According to him he is none other than the monarch's great grandson. Louis's life is soon turned upside down as he becomes the center of attention of a group of ardent royalists. Even a duchess "gives" him her love to make sure that he accepts his role as pretender to the throne...
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.
Friend of Raoul
Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied Mary Pinson, a singer deemed scandalous by the right-minded parishioners. Blinded by his love for Mary, Léon follows her to Paris where he becomes her plaything. With Mary's complicity, a gang of swindlers make him the puppet proprietor of a night club. But Léon can't live in a fool's paradise forever and soon finds himself on the street, forsaken and desperate. Luckily, the manager of a circus notices him while he is busking and he hires Léon at once. Not only will success come to him but he will win the love of sweet Solange.
Un policier (uncredited)
1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor, is very close to her heart. When Rose, a new helper comes to the school, Libois is impressed at once by her understanding of the little ones and her dedication to them. Little by little, Libois grows fond of Rose while becoming estranged from Madeleine. He eventually marries Rose.
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
Le vendeur de journaux (uncredited)
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Un inspecteur (uncredited)
Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the lackluster Zattore. A bank is robbed, but the police is fast and Georges will either lose his life.
Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
(uncredited)
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
(uncredited)
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
(uncredited)
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
Un bagagiste
Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds life boring. Fortunately, there is swing music which illuminates her days. So when, one day, Raymond Serre and his swing orchestra come to Angoulême, she seizes the opportunity to slip the copy of a song she has written into the pocket of one of the musicians. The trouble is that while she is doing so, the train she has boarded pulls out.
Un vénitien
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
(uncredited)
In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
L'homme au cabaret
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
An elector
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
(uncredited)
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his superior, the Dean of Discipline, is also his love rival. Now, the two men are sent on military temporary duty and irony has it that in the Army the Dean is only a private whereas the mere supervisor's rank is ... corporal!
Un prisonnier
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist, Ginette (Renée Saint-Cyr). The two quickly fall in love, and after a brief incarceration, Toto returns to her and schemes to have her win a beauty contest.
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
A jeweler's clerk accidentally swallows a pearl worth three million. The jeweler accepts his marriage to his daughter if the clerk agrees to have the operation. The adventures follow one another until the day when the clerk admits that he has not swallowed the pearl, but as he has become a famous man, the jeweler accepts him as his son-in-law.
Un membre de la bande à Fred (uncredited)
En los años 30, bajo los tejados del París, en las buhardillas, viven los bohemios, los pobres, los artistas y los extranjeros. Entre ellos está Albert, un cantante callejero que se ha enamorado de Pola, una inmigrante polaca a la que también persigue Fred, jefe de una banda de gángsters. Albert y Pola viven juntos hasta que a Albert lo encarcelan por un robo que no ha cometido. Louis, su mejor amigo, se hará cargo entonces de la chica. (FILMAFFINITY)
