Emile the African

Emile the African

1948/05/19 • Released • French

Adventure
7.0
1h 25m

Overview

Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.

Director : Robert Vernay

Casts
Fernandel

Fernandel

Emile Boulard

Alexandre Rignault

Alexandre Rignault

Ladislas Stany

Noëlle Norman

Noëlle Norman

Suzanne Boulard

Félix Oudart

Félix Oudart

Romi, the director

Bernard Lajarrige

Bernard Lajarrige

Daniel Cormier

Roland Armontel

Roland Armontel

Dibier

Jacqueline Dor

Martine Boulard

Madeleine Lambert

Madame Cormier

Jean Hébey

Jean Hébey

The notary's clerk

Line Dariel

Madame Zulma

Missia

The singer

Henri Coutet

Henri Coutet

The actor

André Marnay

André Marnay

The notary

Pierre Labry

Pierre Labry

The boss

Jean Sylvain

A machinist

Janine Viénot

The actress

Palmyre Levasseur

Palmyre Levasseur

The dresser

Émile Riandreys

Émile Riandreys

Eugène Compain

Eugène Compain

Marcel Meral

Georges Sellier

Georges Sellier

Albert Broquin

Albert Broquin

An extra

Lud Germain

Lud Germain

Bimbo

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra

Passer-by (uncredited)

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