She slept with a soldier and forgot his face. Now she's making the whole squadron line up.
A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.
Acting
Michel Simon's physical comedy steals every frame.
Direction
René Sti keeps the farce breathless and precise.
Writing
Brazen premise that Hollywood couldn't touch.
Director
René Sti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1935 French comedy operated with freedoms Hollywood's Hays Code had already crushed, making its casual treatment of premarital pregnancy genuinely transgressive for its era.
Paulette Dubost later became immortal as the maid in Renoir's 'Rules of the Game'—her comic timing here already legendary.
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