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Drôle de Drame

 
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Drôle de Drame

  • Director: Marcel Carné
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Movie Type: Farce
  • Themes: Double Life, Amateur Sleuths
  • Main Cast: Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nadine Vogel
  • Release Year: 1936
  • Country: FR
  • Run Time: 90 minutes

Plot

In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin, a vicar, who shows up unannounced for a visit. Since the servants have just walked out, the writer's wife hides out from the vicar, taking care of the cooking, cleaning and other household chores. To explain his wife's absence as hostess, the writer concocts an excuse which only makes the vicar convinced that he has done away with his spouse. Things go from bad to worse and eventually Scotland Yard is called in to clear things up. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide

Cast

Pierre Alcover - Detective; Marcel Duhamel - Man in Mourning; Jean-Louis Barrault - William Kramps; Jenny Burnay; Henri Guisol - Buffington; René Génin

Credit

Pierre Prevert - First Assistant Director, Marcel Carné - Director, Martha Poncin - Editor, Maurice Jaubert - Composer (Music Score), Alexandre Trauner - Production Designer, Roger Kahan - Cinematographer, Eugen Schüfftan - Cinematographer, Charles David - Production Manager, Corniglion Molinier - Producer, Antoine Archimbaud - Sound/Sound Designer, Jacques Prévert - Screenwriter, J. Storer Clouston - Short Story Author

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