L’Héroïque Monsieur Boniface (1949) - film review

Comedy

Summary

Monsieur Boniface is a happy soul. His job as a window dresser allows him to indulge his artistic leanings and he enjoys working with the shop assistant Irène, whom he hopes one day to marry. Liked and respected by all who know him, he could not be happier. Then, one day, something happens that obliterates the calm of his well-ordered existence. He finds a dead body in his bed! And not just any body – it is the body of a gangster! Before he knows it, Monsieur Boniface is being abducted by a gang of hoodlums who intend to silence him forever...

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Credits

Director: Maurice Labro
Script: Gérard Carlier, André Tabet
Photo: Marc Fossard
Music: Louiguy
Cast: Fernandel (Boniface), Andrex (Charlie), Gaston Orbal (M. Simon), Charles Bouillaud (Le troisième gangster), François Deschamps, Palmyre Levasseur (La logeuse), Julien Maffre (Le lampiste), Albert Malbert (Le bistrot), Max Révol (Le chef de gare), Francis Salabert (Le commissaire), Michel Ardan (Le deuxième gangster), Yves Deniaud (Le premier gangster), Liliane Bert (Irène), Jacques Beauvais (Le maître d’hôtel), Cora Camoin (Une jolie fille), Yvonne Dany, Claudette Donald (Une autre jolie fille), Marcel Loche (Le logeur), Joëlle Robin
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 92 min; B&W
Aka: The Heroic Mr. Boniface

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