A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Acting
Fernandel's deadpan monk reacting to casual evil
Direction
Autant-Lara balancing horror and slapstick
Director
Claude Autant-Lara
Fernandel
The Monk
Françoise Rosay
Marie Martin
Marie-Claire Olivia
Mathilde
Jean-Roger Caussimon
Darwin
Nane Germon
Ms. Élisa
Didier d'Yd
Jeannou
Lud Germain
Fétiche
Jacques Charon
Rodolphe
Andrée Vialla
Marquise Caroline de La Roche de Glun
Julien Carette
Martin
Grégoire Aslan
Barbeuf
Robert Berri
Coachman
André Dalibert
Woodcutter
Grégoire Aslan
Barboeuf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a 19th-century play that was itself based on a real 1833 criminal case in Peyrebeille, France.
Fernandel was France's biggest box office draw; audiences found him playing against a corpse-filled backyard deliciously perverse.
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