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Emile the African

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.

1948 |1h 25m |  Adventure

Cast

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Fernandel

Emile Boulard

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Alexandre Rignault

Ladislas Stany

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Noëlle Norman

Suzanne Boulard

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Félix Oudart

Romi, the director

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Bernard Lajarrige

Daniel Cormier

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Roland Armontel

Dibier

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Jean Hébey

The notary's clerk

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Henri Coutet

The actor

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André Marnay

The notary

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Pierre Labry

The boss

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Palmyre Levasseur

The dresser

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Émile Riandreys

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Eugène Compain

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Georges Sellier

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Albert Broquin

An extra

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Status

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Language

French

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