Charles Bouillaud

Nacimiento : 1904-05-11, Nointot, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

Muerte : 1965-06-12

Películas

Fin de semana en Dunkerque
Le rouspéteur
Junio de 1940. En las playas de Dunkerque, que han sido arrasadas por los bombardeos alemanes, miles de soldados franceses e ingleses esperan partir para Inglaterra. Tras abandonar a sus camaradas, Julien intenta embarcar con los ingleses en un carguero. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dandelions by the Roots
Pommes-Chips acaba de salir de la cárcel y se encuentra con que Jack está saliendo y viviendo con su novia. Pommes-Chips le persigue hasta en el teatro, y mientras el primo de Jack está en plena obra, Jack mata accidentalmente al gángster. Lo que da lugar a una sucesión de enredos, y más aun, cuando se conoce que el cadáver llevaba en su bolsillo un boleto de las carreras de hípica con una importante suma de premio.
Cherchez l'idole
Ticket controller at the Olympia
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...
Maigret, terror del hampa
Le pharmacien Dullac
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)
El confidente
Barman
Tras salir de la cárcel, Maurice Faugel asesina a su amigo Gilbert Varnove. A continuación prepara un atraco para el que necesita una serie de herramientas que le proporcionará Silien (Belmondo), un individuo sospechoso de ser confidente de la policia. El robo sale mal, y Maurice, que sospecha que Silien lo ha traicionado, decide ajustar cuentas con él.
El hampa de París
Godin
Adaptación "Los misterios de París", novela del escritor francés Eugène Sue. Después de atropellar accidentalmente a un hombre con su carruaje, el Marqués Rodolphe de Sombreuil ayudará a su viuda a encontrar a su hija desaparecida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Un mono en invierno
le chauffeur de taxi
Gabriel llega a las costas de Normandía para visitar a su hija, interna en un colegio de señoritas. Allí traba amistad con Albert, un hombre mayor y amargado que ahoga sus penas en alcohol. (FILMAFFINITY)
Amores célebres
un inspecteur
Diversas historias de amor protagonizadas por personajes célebres de la Historia. Los episodios son "Lauzun", "Les comédiennes", "Agnès Bernauer" y "Jenny de Lacour".
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Engraver
Charles Lepicard, Lucas Malvoisin y Éric Masson pretenden falsificar billetes. Éric cree tener bajo manga a un grabador sin igual, el de un tal Mandarès (ahora preso), Robert Mideau, le "Cave", es decir, en el argot de los truhanes, un ser ordinario, crédulo e ignorante. Pero el fraude no se puede hacer sin Ferdinand Maréchal alias "Le Dabe", antiguo falsificador de élite. Retirado en Venezuela tras un golpe frustrado, recibe la visita de Charles que le propone un último negocio con los florines, la misma moneda del golpe frustrado. Le Dabe acepta y viaja a París. El equipo se pone a trabajar.
El milagro de los lobos
Olivier Le Daim
Luis XI, rey de Francia, y Carlos el Temerario, duque de Borgoña, están en una situación de "guerra fría". Luis XI intenta conservar la paz, a pesar de los arrebatos coléricos del duque y las felonías del traidor Sénac. El proyecto del rey es dar a su ahijada, Jeanne de Beauvais, en matrimonio a Carlos, que la desea. Pero Jeanne está enamorada del caballero de Neuville...
The Long Absence
Favier
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.
Lo imprevisto (Los secuestradores)
Un profesor de inglés seduce en la escuela a una joven alumna para que en compañía de su mujer lo ayude en un plan ambicioso con el secuestro de un bebé recién nacido en una clínica.
The Fenouillard Family
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
La verdad
L'avocat d'Annie
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.
Croesus
Le premier gendarme
Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time, he is visited by a lonely widow, Fine, who longs to be his wife. One day, Jules comes across an unexploded bomb lying on the ground in open countryside. After a few foolhardy attempts to set the bomb off, Jules makes a surprising discovery. It is filled with thousands of bank notes…
The Baron of the Locks
Émile, casino employee
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.
Premeditated
The guardian
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only believes him but falls in love with him. But the examination magistrate is not convinced. For his part, he leans towards premeditation. Whether Sommet premeditated his act or acted out of anger and jealousy will be up to the court to decide.
Babette se va a la guerra
Pierrot
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Tras la ocupación de Francia por las tropas alemanas (1940), Babette (Bardot), una joven y hermosa francesa, se refugia en Inglaterra y es reclutada para participar en un plan de la inteligencia militar británica que pretende evitar la invasión del país por los alemanes. Babette tendrá que servirse de su belleza y encanto para ganarse la confianza de los oficiales alemanes y obtener así valiosa información. Sin embargo, la ineptitud de la chica está muy por encima de entusiasmo, lo que la convierte a veces en una auténtica amenaza para las fuerzas aliadas.
Maigret en el caso de la condesa
El comisario de policía Jules Maigret vuelve al pequeño pueblo donde transcurrió su infancia a petición de la condesa de Saint-Fiacre, que ha recibido una inquietante carta anónima.
Oh! Qué mambo
L'agent
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.
Sólo un testigo
Un chauffeur de taxi ami de Raymond
Un hombre traumatizado por el asesinato de su esposa, se aboca a la búsqueda del asesino, que resulta ser un amante de su mujer. En su pesquisa, encuentra y mata al sujeto, siendo su crimen presenciado por un taxista. En su afán de quedar impune, el protagonista se pone tras la pista de este eventual testigo.
Bobosse
The stage manager
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Un domingo maravilloso
le réceptionniste
Jean es diseñador en una agencia publicitaria y se vuelca totalmente en su trabajo para intentar olvidar a su mujer, que le abandonó cinco años atrás. Casualmente un día la encuentra en el autobús y descubre que todavía le gusta y que él también ejerce atractivo sobre ella. Los sentimientos de Jean serán entonces contradictorios, por una lado querría matarla y por otro volver a conquistarla.
Les vignes du Seigneur
Jean, le domestique des Bourjeon
Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.
El embrujo de París
Porter (uncredited)
En un barco viajan a París dos cómicos famosos: uno es francés y regresa tras una gira americana, el otro es americano y va a Francia a comprar un guión para su próximo espectáculo. En el barco también viaja una señora que intenta apoderarse de una copia de ese guión para destruirlo.
The Fast Set
Originally titled Mademoiselle Striptease, this classic French sex comedy is a charming frolic through luscious Parisian cabarets with outstanding striptease performances. Agnes Laurent plays a spoiled young provincial girl.
Puerta de las lilas
the agent (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....
Vacances explosives
Un homme à l'hôtel
Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed with drugs! The honeymoon trip promises to be eventful...
The Wheel
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
El camino feliz
Driver of truck in the ditch
Michael y Suzanne son dos padres solteros que no se conocen, pero cada uno tiene un hijo y acabarán coincidiendo cuando los dos chavales se escapan juntos de un internado suizo.
Sénéchal the Magnificent
Un accessoiriste (uncredited)
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
Las aventuras de Arsenio Lupin
Otto, the valet
Arsenio Lupin es un célebre ladrón francés de guante blanco, que se esconde con la identidad del Duque de Charmerace. El káiser Guillermo de Alemania, incentivado por una de sus aristócratas, decide secuestrarlo para ver si es capaz de descubrir un escondite secreto de su castillo en el que guarda una importante joya.
Until the Last One
A gendarme
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...
Blood to the Head
Le chef de gare (uncredited)
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
The Whole Town Accuses
Pistard
François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.
Quatre jours à Paris
Le portier de l'institut
The Little Rebels
Un agent de police (uncredited)
Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
Hi-Jack Highway
le gendarme dactylo
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Les Hommes en blanc
Le guérisseur
La condesa de Castiglione
Masson - un indicateur
La condesa de Castiglione fue considerada la mujer más bella del mundo. Una de las más célebres amantes de Napoleón III. Llegó a París con 19 años, pues su primo Cavour, primer ministro del rey Víctor Manuel II de Cerdeña y Piamonte, la induce para conquistar a Luis Napoleón III, con el propósito de conseguir el apoyo del soberano francés a la causa piamontesa.
Rasputin
L'industriel Posinoff
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
Virgile
L'agent
Virgile is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Carlo Rim
Le Portrait de son père
Martin
Un campesino carente de instrucción hereda de su padre, al que nunca conoció, unos grandes almacenes.
Vuelven los mosqueteros
L'aubergiste de 'l'auberge des bourgeois de Calais'
Adaptación de la primera parte de la archifamosa novela de Dumas. En esta versión los elementos cómicos predominan sobre los dramáticos. D'Artagnan, con la ayuda de sus amigos Athos, Porthos y Aramis y su incondicional Planchet, tendrá que defender la reputación de la reina, la española Ana de Austria, frente a las turbias intrigas del Cardenal Richelieu y sus colaboradores, Rochefort y la peligrosísima Milady de Winter.
My Husband Is Marvelous
A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
The Last Robin Hood
Julien
While Ludovic Dubois, a young summer camp monitor in Saint-Benoît, entertains the children by playing Robin Hood, the lord's niece is kidnapped by her uncle, in the castle next door. Helped by the children and the customs inspector, the last of the Robin Hoods will free the "Princess Isabelle", and will end up marrying her.
The Drunkard
Substitute Barillier
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
The Fighting Drummer
The rivalry between Albert Gambier, head of the municipal brass band, and the jazz band, led by Jacques Hélian, provokes many comic adventures in this small provincial town. Everything will end in songs, thanks to the love uniting Jimmy, the band's composer, and Nicole, Gambier's daughter.
Crimson Curtain
The policeman at the police station (uncredited)
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Mister Taxi
L'agent de la circulation
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
Foyer perdu
Thomas, clerk
A brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family home, because he has given birth to his girlfriend. His wife then reveals to him that he is not Pierrot's father and she flees with her lover. Abandoned, Eugene will be saved by his mother who will restore the situation with energy and determination.
No matarás
L'agent (uncredited)
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, René Le Guen será el encargado de ejecutar a un traidor de la Resistencia francesa, pero ya terminada la contienda continuará asesinando hasta que finalmente es detenido y condenado a muerte. Su abogado pedirá clemencia porque hace responsable a la sociedad de los crímenes cometidos por René.
French Touch
L'Inspecteur
Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon the most sought-after hairdresser in France and is awarded the Legion of Honor...
Hello… I love you
Martinet
Since he met Odette, Pierre thinks only of her. Every day, he calls her saying only "Hello...I love you". Then he manages to get hired in the factory where Odette works...
Massacre in Lace
Un employé de la rédaction
Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'tit Louis, Georges' blundering but faithful photographer, is sent to Venice with a mission: pull up his socks. But Georges is not so dormant as he appears. Behind the scenes, he investigates the activities of a gang that cleans out Venice. Quite logically, he soon finds himself face to face with a bunch of shady brutal characters, among whom Zélos, a Greek nightclub owner, and Alessandro Cassidi, a powerful motor manufacturer married to the alluring Clara, twice younger than he is...
Le crime du Bouif
Agent Balloche
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
My Wife Is Formidable
le chef de réception de l'hôtel
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
Jamais deux sans trois
Joseph aka Jojo
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
Each in turn
Pitois
Robert Montfort, happily married to Solange, is his parents-in-law's pet aversion though. To them he is a punk, a good for nothing, a small-time, untalented poet! Robert, who is more gifted than what they think, manages, following a workmate's recommendation, to debut as an entertainer in a nightclub and -even better- to please the audience. Not daring tell the truth to Solange he starts leading a double life, being Robert Montfort in the daytime and Jean Rigobert at night. Of course his wife wonders what is going on and worries about his regular night outings. Only too happy, her parents incite her to have a divorce. Fortunately, all comes right in the end.
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Un agent de police (uncredited)
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
Le Roi des camelots
Emile
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Un inspecteur
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...
God Needs Men
Le gendarme
The inhabitants of a Scottish island in the 19th century follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Doorman
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Le roi Pandore
Grenu
A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. But crooks deprive him of his financial means
We Will All Go to Paris
Member of the constabulary
The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
The Story of Dr. Louise
Thomas
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.
The Chocolate Girl
The head waiter
Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night at Paul Norman's, imposes herself casually and causes the break-up of the engagement of this peaceful civil servant with the daughter of his department head. A friend maintains contact between Paul and Benjamine, becomes the head of publicity at Lapistole and when Norman is dismissed through Benjamine's fault, brings his two friends closer and proves to them that they are made for each other.
The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Le troisième gangster
A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body in his own bed.
La veuve et l'innocent
Inspector Bontemps
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
Paulo
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.
Dr. Laennec
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
Dr. Laennec
Un domestique
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
Firemen's Ball
Coquillard
1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.
Impeccable Henri
Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo and at the same time to inform the burglars so as to facilitate their work. But once in the house he performs his task so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Moreover, Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.
L'Ombre
Sylvain
Suspected of murder, a man disappears under mysterious conditions, which only increases the charges against him.
White as Snow
Inspector Robillard
Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
By the Window
Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.
Square of Knaves
Le procureur
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
Not So Stupid
Joseph
Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle Henri Ménard, a prosperous industrialist. He encounters a number of people scheming to marry into the Ménard family for the sake of money. Ménard discovers and thwart the plots and manages to unite a young couple who truly are in love. The romantic comedy ends happily with a double marriage. Henri's daughter Nicole marries Didier, and Ménard marries his new-found love Rosine. It turns out that Léon is "not so stupid" after all.
Gringalet
A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful indiscretion has turned into an artist.He is nicknamed "Gringalet" .Now his father wants him to meet his half-brother ,his mother-in-law and the rest of the family. Gringalet will turn this bourgeois family upside down:they become nice,the big brother becoming a perfect businessman who stops scouring nightclubs to spend most of his time with his fiancee Josette.There's the rub,cause Gringalet is also in love with her.
Dropped from Heaven
The toy merchant (uncredited)
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.
Resistance
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
My First Love
The teacher
Bob, a student, is very emotionally close to his mother Suzanne. He is alarmed when she seems about to begin a relationship with a novelist, regarding it as a betrayal.
The Emigrant
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Hotel del Norte
Un inspecteur
En un modesto hotel de un barrio popular de París, Renée (Annabella) y Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont), una joven pareja de enamorados, alquilan una habitación para una sola noche. Ambos jóvenes tiene intención de suicidarse: Pierre matará a Renée de un tiro, y luego disparará contra sí mismo. Pero el plan no sale como tenían planeado...