Sol M. Wurtzel

Sol M. Wurtzel

Рождение : 1890-09-12, New York City, New York, USA

Смерть : 1958-04-09

История

Sol Wurtzel (born Solomon Max Wurtzel; September 12, 1890 – April 9, 1958) was an American film producer.

Профиль

Sol M. Wurtzel

Фильмы

Miss Mink of 1949
Executive Producer
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
Trouble Preferred
Producer
A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies.
Night Wind
Producer
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
Fighting Back
Executive Producer
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Arthur Takes Over
Producer
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
Half Past Midnight
Producer
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Roses Are Red
Producer
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
The Invisible Wall
Producer
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
The Crimson Key
Producer
Larry Morgan, a private detective, is hired by a woman who wants Larry to trail her husband. The husband is murdered and, shortly afterwards, the wife is also killed. Larry shuffles through a long list of suspects before revealing the killer...
Jewels of Brandenburg
Producer
A former secret agent is sent to retrieve a priceless collection of stolen jewels from a Lisbon nightclub owner who worked both sides during World War II.
Backlash
Producer
In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.
Strange Journey
Producer
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
Deadline for Murder
Producer
A favor for an old friend leads a Los Angeles gambler (Kent Taylor) into a dangerous search for a missing document.
The Big Noise
Producer
During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.
Bomber's Moon
Producer
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
Жучки
Producer
Лорел и Харди – путешествующие музыканты-универсалы. Вдвоем они показывают Восьмое чудо света – оркестр, играя вдвоем на всех инструментах. Однажды на дороге они случайно знакомятся с молодым пройдохой Чарльзом Райтом. Пользуясь их наивностью, он уговаривает их помочь ему провернуть одно дельце, выручку от которого они поделят пополам. Но в ближайшем городке Чарльз знакомится с девушкой Сьюзан, которую, как он выяснил, уже обвели вокруг пальца мошенники покрупнее. Желая вернуть деньги у мошенников, Честер с нашими друзьями задумывают грандиозную аферу...
Time to Kill
Producer
Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.
Dr. Renault's Secret
Executive Producer
A remake of the 1927 horror film "The Wizard". Dr. Larry Forbes arrives in a remote French village to visit his fiancée who lives with her scientist father Dr. Renault and his Ape-like manservant Noel. Several Murders coincide with Dr. Forbes arrival, with clues pointing in multiple directions.
A-Haunting We Will Go
Producer
Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
Thru Different Eyes
Executive Producer
A celebrated district attorney reflects on the way circumstantial evidence impacted a famous murder case.
Whispering Ghosts
Executive Producer
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain.
The Man Who Wouldn't Die
Executive Producer
A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.
Who Is Hope Schuyler?
Producer
A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed attempts. A prosecuting attorney in the district attorneys office is aiding her in solving the mystery of the missing lady.
Young America
Associate Producer
Young America is a 1942 American drama film directed by Louis King and written by Samuel G. Engel. The film stars Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Lynne Roberts, Robert Cornell, William Tracy and Roman Bohnen. The film was released on February 6, 1942, by 20th Century Fox.
Blue, White, and Perfect
Executive Producer
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Great Guns
Executive Producer
Laurel and Hardy join the army. They are hardly soldiers, but they believe their employer, (Dick Nelson) will need them now he's drafted.
Last of the Duanes
Producer
Based on Zane Grey's tale of a man who gains an unfair reputation as a gunfighter while out to avenge his father's death.
Чарли Чен в Рио
Producer
Пара убийств в Рио-де-Жанейро заставляет местную полицию вызвать знаменитого детектива. Чарли сначала озадачен, когда выясняется, что одного из убийц убивает вдова первой жертвы.
Ride on Vaquero
Executive Producer
The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army regiment, to help break up a kidnap ring. On his way to Las Tables with his pal, Gordito, he makes a stop at the Martinez Rancho, where they learn that his friend Carlos has been kidnapped, from his wife Marquerita. At the Crystal Palace Saloon, Cisco runs into an old girlfriend, Sally, who he once jilted for a tight-rope walker, but she doesn't betray him when the sheriff and an army officer enter searching for Cisco.
Sleepers West
Producer
Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.
Ride, Kelly, Ride
Producer
Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer's daughter (Quigley).
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Executive Producer
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Убийство над Нью-Йорком
Executive Producer
Когда старого друга Чарли из Скотланд-Ярда убивают во время посещения ими съезда полиции в Нью-Йорке, Чен берётся за дело, над которым он работал ранее.
Charter Pilot
Executive Producer
US-to-Central-America freight service pilot gets engaged to radio broadcaster and promises to take a desk job but the urge for adventure is too strong.
Pier 13
Producer
A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.
Sailor's Lady
Producer
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Earthbound
Executive Producer
A murdered man helps his widow bring his killer to justice.
Girl in 313
Producer
A priceless necklace goes missing at a plush party. Police close in on the jewel thieves but is one cop getting too close to one of the crooks?
On Their Own
Executive Producer
The Jones family (without father) head for California to open a bungalow court. To increase business they advertise for families with children and pets. A neighbor threatens to sue.
Viva Cisco Kid
Executive Producer
Cisco saves a stagecoach from being robbed and takes a shine to one of the passengers whose father is in cahoots with a vicious criminal who plans to murder him.
Чарли Чен в Панаме
Executive Producer
Сыщик Чарли Чен и неугомонный «сын № 2» снова с нами. Чарли выдаёт себя за служащего правительства США, чтобы помешать шпионскому заговору, который разрушит часть Панамского канала и заманит в ловушку военно-морской флот, направляющийся в Тихий океан после манёвров в Атлантике.
High School
Producer
A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when she's sent to a San Antonio high-school.
City of Chance
Producer
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Циско Кид и леди
Executive Producer
В фильме «Циско Кид и леди» главный герой — неуловимый грабитель банков и почтовых карет, но он защищает грудного ребёнка погибшего золотоискателя и крепко наказывает другого грабителя, имеющего среди городка благопристойную репутацию, но не имеющего совести. Словом — мотив популярной у всех народов темы благородного разбойника, Робин Гуда.
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
Producer
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.
20,000 Men a Year
Executive Producer
Pilot disobeys unsafe orders and loses his job. He then starts a flying school which receives a boost when the government launches a program which it hopes will produce 20,000 pilots a year.
The Escape
Producer
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.
Frontier Marshal
Executive Producer
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Mr. Moto's Last Warning
Executive Producer
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.
Чарли Чен в Гонолулу
Producer
Пока Чарли занят рождением своего первого внука, сын Джимми выдает себя за отца, чтобы расследовать убийство на борту грузового судна в гавани.
Up the River
Producer
A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Producer
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Keep Smiling
Producer
Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.
Mr. Moto Takes a Chance
Executive Producer
In the jungle near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Mr. Moto poses as an ineffectual archaeologist and a venerable holy man with mystical powers to help foil two insurgencies against the government.
Азартная игра мистера Мото
Producer
Мистер Мото, известный как суперсыщик, выходит на бой, когда жестокий боксерский поединок превращается в хладнокровное убийство! С помощью детектива-стажера Ли Чена, Мото отправляется на поиски убийцы по единственной зловещей улике: отравленной боксёрской перчатке! Но когда догадка Мото указывает на коррумпированный игорный синдикат, он вынужден поставить на кон свою жизнь, чтобы разоблачить преступника, или пойти на казнь... навсегда!
Walking Down Broadway
Producer
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many different turns, often for the worse.
International Settlement
Producer
In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
Change of Heart
Producer
While Carol Murdock is becoming the golf-champion at the country club, husband Anthony is all wrapped up in his business and rants a lot about how much time his wife spends playing gold, thereby neglecting their home and him. Carol teams up with golfer Phillip Reeves and they win a tournament together, and Reeves becomes infatuated with Carol. Anthony rants some more and Carol packs up and starts the divorce proceedings. Anthony fights back by taking up golf himself.
City Girl
Producer
In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook is only using her as a pawn in his scheme to learn the DA's secrets. When she finally does learn the truth, she gives up her life for truth, justice and love.
Спасибо, мистер Мото
Executive Producer
Никто не знает, на кого именно работает мистер Мото, но его обширные связи всегда ему позволяют узнать то, что нужно и вовремя оказаться в нужном месте и в нужное время. Фильм сразу начинается с жесткого действия и далее события разворачиваются стремительно. Все действие происходит вокруг 7 старинных свитков, принадлежащих обедневшей, но в прошлом знатной семье из императорских приближенных. Если эти свитки правильно сложить, они оказываются картой, показывающей путь к могиле Чингис-хана, по преданию в которой таятся несметные сокровища. Группа злодеев пытается любой ценой захватить эти свитки.
Чарли Чен в Монте Карло
Executive Producer
Хотя Чарли и Ли находятся в Монако на художественной выставке, они оказываются вовлеченными в вражду между соперничающими финансистами, которая вовлекает Чена в паутину шантажа и убийств.
Dangerously Yours
Executive Producer
A detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
One Mile From Heaven
Executive Producer
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Думай быстро, мистер Мото
Producer
В Сан-Франциско, затем на борту теплохода «Марко Поло» следующего в Гонолулу и Шанхай, и в самом Шанхае японский сыщик-любитель мистер Мото срывает коварные планы контрабандистов, наладивших по этому морскому маршруту перевозки бриллиантов и наркотиков. В ходе расследования ему приходится опекать и защищать сына владельца пароходной компании, который влюбился в авантюристку, работающую на одного из главарей контрабандистов.
Fair Warning
Producer
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Чарли Чен в опере
Executive Producer
В здании оперы происходит сильный пожар, во время которого бесследно исчезает ведущий баритон Гравель. Певца считают погибшим, но он оказывается в психиатрической лечебнице с сильной амнезией. Никто не знает, как его зовут и откуда он взялся. Проходит семь лет, как однажды Гравель узнает новость, что его бывшая жена и партнерша по театру стала главной исполнительницей оперы. К Гравелю возвращается память, и он сбегает из лечебницы. Вскоре обнаруживают мертвую жену Гравеля, а затем еще нескольких артистов оперы. За расследование берется знаменитый детектив Чарли Чен и его сын Ли...
Ramona
Producer
Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family's wishes and loves another Indian employed by the household.
The Country Beyond
Producer
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Gentle Julia
Producer
A shy newspaperman nearly gives up when his girlfriend falls for the new guy in town till Withers sets things right.
Song and Dance Man
Producer
Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
My Marriage
Producer
When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.
Секрет Чарли Чена
Executive Producer
Океанский лайнер тонет у берегов Гонолулу, и Аллен Колби, наследник миллионов, считается мертвым, но местный сыщик Чарли Чан в этом не уверен и летит в Сан-Франциско для дальнейшего расследования. Каким-то образом пропавший Колби оказывается там раньше него, но его убивают ножом в спину, прежде, чем он предъявляет права на свое наследство. Спиритические сеансы, устраиваемые в доме, "призраки из загробного мира" не помешают Чарли Чену сделать нужные выводы и вычислить убийцу...
This Is the Life
Executive Producer
A popular child star, exploited and overworked by her greedy guardians, decides enough is enough--and takes it on the lam.
Redheads on Parade
Producer
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
Пароход, плывущий по течению
Producer
Фильм рассказывает о старом речном волке докторе Джоне, ворчуне и одиночке, который с помощью невесты племянника Флети пытается собрать деньги для оплаты юридических услуг, чтобы вызволить племянника из тюрьмы, где его приговорили к виселице за то преступление, которое он не совершал. Они спускаются вниз по реке на его старом пароходе с малочисленным экипажем, чтобы собрать людей на посещение импровизированного музея, собранного из остатка разорившегося театра восковых фигур…
Dante's Inferno
Producer
A carny builds a gambling empire at the expense of his family's wellbeing.
Чарли Чен в Египте
Executive Producer
Профессор археологии Арнольд обнаруживает гробницу египетского фараона Амети. Но после того, как гробница была вскрыта, профессор таинственным образом исчез, а на чёрных рынках мира стали появляться старинные драгоценности, которые должны были находиться в гробнице. Французское археологическое общество отправляет знаменитого детектива Чарли Чена в Египет...
$10 Raise
Executive Producer
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
Insure Your Wife
Producer
This Fox Film comedy – based on a play by Argentinean writer Julio Escobar – features an international cast that includes actor and singer Raúl Roulien and his fiancée in both the movie and real life, actress and dancer Conchita Montenegro. The plot centers on Ricardo Randall (Roulien), who concocts a scheme to establish an insurance policy to protect men from their wives’ infidelity. The plot thickens when Ricardo’s secretary and love interest, Camelia Cornell (Montenegro), is faced with the return of Rita Martín (Maris), a former lover of Ricardo, whose husband Eduardo (Moreno) has purchased an insurance policy on her. The film features tango songs performed by Roulien, with lyrics by Spanish playwright Enrique Jardiel Poncela, who also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.
Чарли Чен в Париже
Producer
Визит Чарли в Париж, якобы в отпуск, на самом деле является миссией по расследованию шума с подделкой облигаций. Но его агент, танцовщица «апаша» Нарди, убита прежде, чем она успевает многое ему рассказать. Дело, осложнено ложным обвинением в убийстве дочери банкира Иветты, завершается странным путешествием по парижской канализации.
Elinor Norton
Producer
A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a coffee baron while her husband is off fighting WW I. Her shell-shocked husband finally returns. He is terribly jealous. To help him, the wife takes him to a Western dude ranch. Her lover also goes, and the two men soon become friends. The coffee magnate helps to cure him, but then breaks his heart by telling him that he and the wife are planning to run away.
Judge Priest
Producer
Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, restores the justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky using his common sense and his great sense of humanity.
Handy Andy
Producer
A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of the chain's owner, even though the girl is in love with the handsome son of the town doctor. Finally the druggist decides he's had enough and takes matters into his own hands.
Baby Take a Bow
Co-Executive Producer
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight, and Eddie and Kay have a beautiful little girl named Shirley. However, Welch has kept a close eye on them for years. He believes in "once a criminal, always a criminal." Then, when Eddie's employer's wife's pearls go missing, it comes out that Eddie and Larry both spent time in prison, and they're fired. Welch suspects that Eddie and Larry have something to do with the theft of the pearls. Will Welch prove that Eddie and Larry had something to do with the theft, or will the truth prevail?
Wild Gold
Producer
A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they're traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he takes the carburetor off her car and throws it in the river, stranding them there. They wind up staying at the cabin of a crusty old prospector, and soon the manager of a nightclub act shows up with his bevy of beautiful showgirls.
Murder in Trinidad
Producer
Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o' Spain trying to track down the leader of a gang of diamond smugglers. A trail, littered with murders, leads him to a crocodile-infested swamp.
Orient Express
Producer
Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.
Sleepers East
Producer
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Hello, Sister!
Associate Producer
Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together...
Broadway Bad
Producer
Showgirl Tony Landers, supported by her friend Flip Daly, fights for the custody of her son during a divorce hearing.
Mystery Ranch
Producer
Megalomaniacal rancher is a law unto himself, until a Ranger is called-upon to bring him to justice.
Young as You Feel
Executive Producer
Lemuel Morehouse, the owner of a profitable meatpacking company in Chicago, bemoans the fact that neither of his two sons have the time nor inclination to eat with him. Billy is obsessed with culture, while Tom is a physical fitness nut. At the office, Lemuel is exasperated when Billy arrives for work at four in the afternoon and cannot stay because of a party he is giving that night to unveil a statue he bought for $20,000. Lemuel then finds Tom meeting with his golf committee rather than working. When the boys argue that business is only a means to an end, and that happiness and enjoyment of life are desired goals, Lemuel counters their contentions by declaring that what they really need are wives and tells them that Dorothy and Rose Gregson, the daughters of an old friend, will soon be visiting.
Чарли Чен продолжает
Producer
Чарли вмешивается, чтобы раскрыть убийство богатого американца, найденного мёртвым в лондонском отеле. Постановка включают Лондон, Ниццу, Сан-Ремо, Гонолулу и Гонконг. Быстрый темп с большим количеством острот.
С улыбкой к миру
Executive Producer
Молли и Би, милые молодые девушки, живут в дешевой комнате над продуктовым магазином в Нью-Йорке. Кумир Молли, богатый Джек Кромвелл, живет в особняке на Лонг-Айленде, но он заметно менее счастлив, поскольку его невеста Джейн постоянно флиртует со своими многочисленными поклонниками. Прибыв в Нью-Йорк, Джек попадает на вечеринку в честь Дня независимости, где встречает Молли...
Седьмое небо
Supervising Producer
События разворачиваются в Париже накануне Первой мировой войны. Молодая девушка Diane терпит побои от своей старшей сестры, которая обвиняет её во всех неудачах. В очередной момент насилия над Diane ей на помощь приходит молодой красавец Chiko — работник городской канализации. Путём хитрой авантюры дабы запутать полицию, Diane попадает в дом Chiko, где и рождается между ними светлое чувство. Влюблённые готовы пожениться, но начинается война, добавляя драматизма в и без того нелёгкую жизнь бедных парижан.