Emile the African backdrop

Emile the African 1948 Directed by Robert Vernay Émile l'africain

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.

Country France
Production Country France
Language French
Spoken Language French
Gnere Adventure
Release Date 19 May 1948
85 mins
Cast
Fernandel Emile Boulard
Alexandre Rignault Ladislas Stany
Noëlle Norman Suzanne Boulard
Félix Oudart Romi, the director
Bernard Lajarrige Daniel Cormier
Jacqueline Dor Martine Boulard
Madeleine Lambert Madame Cormier
Jean Hébey The notary's clerk
Line Dariel Madame Zulma
Missia The singer
Henri Coutet The actor
André Marnay The notary
Pierre Labry The boss
Sylvain A machinist
Janine Viénot The actress
Palmyre Levasseur The dresser
Albert Broquin An extra
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra Passer-by (uncredited)
Crew
Director