A $3M pearl goes down the wrong throat and society loses its collective mind.
A jeweler's clerk accidentally swallows a pearl worth three million. The jeweler accepts his marriage to his daughter if the clerk agrees to have the operation. The adventures follow one another until the day when the clerk admits that he has not swallowed the pearl, but as he has become a famous man, the jeweler accepts him as his son-in-law.
Acting
Robert Arnoux's escalating panic as the accidental swallower.
Writing
The delicious irony of becoming famous for a lie you tried to escape.
Director
René Guissart
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Sidney Toler's 1926 stage farce, this was part of a wave of French adaptations of American comedy hits—Hollywood's influence flowing backward for once.
Edwige Feuillère, playing Viviane here, would become one of France's most celebrated dramatic actresses—imagine Meryl Streep cutting her teeth in a pearl-swallowing farce.
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