L'Ordonnance malgré lui (1932)
Directed by Maurice Cammage

Comedy

Film Synopsis

A colonel wishes to marry the Baroness of Flair, but he cannot do so until the latter has married off her daughter.  A friend of the colonel suggests his nephew as a likely suitor for the baroness's daughter.  One day, the baroness mistakes a soldier named Leneveu for the courting nephew, not realising that he is in fact the colonel's chaffeur...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Maurice Cammage
  • Script: Maurice Cammage (dialogue), Jean Kolb (dialogue), Georges Rose (story), Saint-Paul (story)
  • Cinematographer: Georges Clerc
  • Music: Fernand Heintz
  • Cast: Fanny Darnell (Genevieve), Monette Dinay (Rosine), Fernandel (Alfred Leveneux), Anthony Gildès (Le Colonel), Jean Gobet (Le Vicomte de Marchevieule), Alice Tissot (La Baronne Du Flair), Jean Valroy (L'Adjudant)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 48 min

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