Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
Acting
Fernandel's deadpan martyrdom is pure comic gold.
Writing
Tight farce construction, every gossip gets their due.
Director
Henri Verneuil
Fernandel
Dardamelle
Henri Arius
Mayor
Alexandre Arnaudy
Le curé
Antonin Berval
Le commissaire
Jacqueline Pagnol
Francine Dardamelle
Pauline Carton
Toinette
Renée Passeur
Aunt
Nina Myral
La présidente des filles repenties
Manuel Gary
Arthur
Charles Blavette
Lambrequin
Mireille Perrey
Isabelle
Saturnin Fabre
Dr. Caberlot
Michel Marsay
Monsieur Arthur (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1953 French comedy loved cuckold plots—Pagnol's influence made rural Provence the genre's spiritual home.
Jacqueline Pagnol was Marcel Pagnol's ex-wife; her casting as the adulteress layered real marital history onto the fiction.
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