Fernandel
1903 - 1971(Wikipedia)
Le chant du marin
Carmine Gallone
Albert Préjean, Jim Gérald
Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to cheat on their spouses by frequenting the dives and joints in every town where their ship drops anchor. The boys are certain, however, that their wives would never behave in a similar fashion. Upon returning home, of course, they discover that their better halves are just as sexually irresponsible as their hubbies.
Sailor's Song
La terreur de la pampa
Maurice Cammage
Fernandel, Joe Alex
Billy Forster, a dishwasher, dreams of becoming a hero. One day, he leaves Hollywood for Texas, where he is soon hired as a ranch hand by Tom Spielman. What Billy does not know is that the rancher is also a highwayman who, with the help of his Negro henchman Sam, terrorizes and robs isolated travelers. But, assisted by Nelly, Spielman's adopted daughter, and Partridge Eye, an Indian, Billy manages to bring the two criminals to justice.
La terreur de la pampa
Don Camillo
Julien Duvivier
Fernandel, Gino Cervi
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Don Camillo
La loi c'est la loi
Christian-Jaque
Fernandel, Totò
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
The Law Is the Law
The Phoney War
Cédric Gruat
Éric Caravaca, Bertrand Chamerois
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.
The Phoney War
Regain
Marcel Pagnol
Fernandel, Robert Le Vigan
In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other - fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?
Harvest
Un carnet de bal
Julien Duvivier
Harry Baur, Marie Bell
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
Un carnet de bal
Ordonnance malgré lui
Maurice Cammage
Fernandel, Fanny Darnell
The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match. A friend of the colonel proposes his nephew: a count with a degilded coat of arms. Private Leneveu presents himself to the baroness, who takes him for the suitor, whereas he is the colonel's driver. Gaffes and misunderstandings. The arrival of the true nephew restores the situation. Leneveu goes to the police station.
L'ordonnance malgré lui
L'Auberge rouge
Claude Autant-Lara
Fernandel, Françoise Rosay
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
The Red Inn
Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone
Carmine Gallone
Fernandel, Gino Cervi
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Don Camillo's Last Round
Topaze
Marcel Pagnol
Fernandel, Hélène Perdrière
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...
Topaze
