Le mariage de Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Fric-Frac
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
Sylvie and the Ghost
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
Douce
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
The Crossing of Paris
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
Le bon Dieu sans confession
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
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Claude Autant-Lara
Director
Bernard Blier
as
Le garçon d'hôtel
Michel Simon
as
Jo 'Les bras coupés'
Jean Desailly
as
Frederick
Roger Blin
as
L'homme du théâtre
Louis de Funès
as
Jambier, l'épicier
Harald Wolff
as
Le commandant allemand
Jacques Marin
as
Le patron du restaurant Saint Martin
Ivan Desny
as
Maurice Fréjoul
Grégoire Aslan
as
Varesco
