Emile the African
Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House
The Plot
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.
Run Time
1h 25m
Genre
Adventure
Release Date
19 May 1948
Country
France
Language
French
Director & Producers
Top Billed Cast
FernandelEmile Boulard
Alexandre RignaultLadislas Stany
Noëlle NormanSuzanne Boulard
Félix OudartRomi, the director
Bernard LajarrigeDaniel Cormier
Roland ArmontelDibier
Martine Boulard
Madame Cormier
Jean HébeyThe notary's clerk
Madame Zulma
The singer
Henri CoutetThe actor


Robert Vernay