Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At a time they get lost and in order to escape the Navy patrolmen, they disguise themselves and board a train. Now it happens that in the convoy a delegate of the government is on his way to Paris, with the mission to inaugurate a monument there. But the circumstances are such that our two friends are mistaken for the Minister and his secretary. Unabashed, the pair does the job, in other words, they deliver the expected speech, eat like horses, live it up - until they are recognized. Which eventually results in a prolonged stay in an unpleasant kind of hotel room named - the hold.
Acting
Fernandel's rubber-faced panic as fake minister
Production
Authentic Toulon naval port location shooting
Director
Maurice Cammage
Fernandel
Lafraise
Édouard Delmont
Le quartier-maître
Colette Darfeuil
Germaine Pelageon
Gaston Ouvrard
Plumard, un marin du « Victorieux »
Georges Péclet
Le commandant du « Victorieux »
Philippe Hersent
L'aspirant
Andrex
Le lieutenant
Renée Dennsy
Hortense
Anthony Gildès
Le maire
Louis Florencie
Mr Pelageon, le pharmacien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Fernandel's early breakout roles, cementing his status as France's beloved everyman comic before his iconic Don Camillo series.
Director Maurice Cammage specialized in naval comedies, apparently finding endless hilarity in sailors on shore leave—this was his second 'Bleus' film.
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