A burglar on truth serum? Chaos ensues in this 1935 French farce.
Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will become the perfect guinea-pig for testing the prof's last find. And it works well. Too well in fact, for if Amédée tells the truth he tells it to everybody and in every circumstance, thus causing disasters around him.
Practical Effects
Physical comedy timing that CGI killed
Costume
1930s burglar chic: striped shirts and guilty faces
Writing
Escalating disaster structure, every truth worse than the last
Director
Andrew Brunelle
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pre-occupation French cinema loved mocking bourgeois hypocrisy through working-class chaos agents.
Alice Tissot appeared in over 200 films; this rare surviving Brunelle short showcases her gift for exasperated reactions.
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