Ne le criez pas sur les toits (1943) - film review

Comedy / Drama

Summary

Vincent Fleuret is the humble assistant of Professor Moucherotte, a renowned chemist who is on the point of finding the formula for Benzyl, a revolutionary new compound. Just about everyone seems to be keen to profit from Moucherotte’s discovery. The Noblets, the family who provide lodgings for the professor and his assistant, expect that Benzyl will make them rich, as does a group of financiers, who have smuggled a mole into the household, in the form of a butler. When Moucherotte collapses, the world is led to believe that Vincent possesses the highly prized formula. The naive young man soon finds himself the centre of attention...

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Credits

Director: Jacques Daniel-Norman
Script: Jean Bernard-Luc, Alex Joffé, Jean Manse
Photo: Léonce-Henri Burel
Music: Roger Dumas
Cast: Fernandel (Vincent Fleuret), Robert Le Vigan (Le professeur Léonard Bontagues), Meg Lemonnier (Renée Lancel), Jacques Varennes (Octave), Thérèse Dorny (Madame Noblet), Jean Toulout (Le président du tribunal), Marie-Josée Maffei (Angélica), Paul Azaïs (P’tit Louis), Henri Arius (Trapu), Georges Lannes (Cartier), Pierre Feuillère (Riquet), Léon Belières (Monsieur Noblet), Albert Gercourt (Le professeur Moucherotte), Marcel André (L’avocat général), Gaston Séverin (L’avocat de Vincent), Robert Dalban (Un plombier), Jacques Berlioz (Le professeur Holtz)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 99 min; B&W

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