Les Rois du sport / Fernandel / Pierre Colombier / 1937 / film review

Les Rois du sport

1937 Comedy

Credits

Director: Pierre Colombier
Script: Germain Fried, Jean Guitton, Henri Jeanson
Photo: Victor Arménise, Robert Juillard
Music: Roger Dumas
Cast: Raimu (Jules de l’Estaque), Fernandel (Fernand), Jules Berry (Burette), Lisette Lanvin (Antoinnette), Georges Flamant (Jim Stanford), Doumel (Le president du boxing-club), Marcel Maupi (Le cireur), Mado Stelli, Léna Darthès, Nita Raya (Lili), Julien Carette (Vachette)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 102 min; B&W

Summary

Jules and Fernand, two waiters in a Marseilles café, are both keen sports enthusiasts. They enter the annual waiters’ race, which Jules wins. With the prize money, Jules places a bet on a football match with a boxing manager, Burette. When Jules wins the bet, Burette disappears, and Jules follows him to Paris to try to recuperate his winnings. Fernand later arrives in Paris but is mistaken for Burette’s star boxer, who is about to contest a well-publicised match...

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