Synopsis
A brave and honest provincial bookseller and candidate for municipal elections is the victim of a plot as soon as he arrives in Paris by a journalist allied with his opponents. Many misadventures will happen to him during his Parisian journey.
Technical data
- Genre: Comedy
- Duration: 1h33
- Director: Jean Boyer, assisted by Jean Bastia
- Screenplay: René Barjavel, Raymond Castans, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant
- Music: René Sylviano
- Produced by Frédéric Heldt and Jean Martinetti
- Head of Design: Robert Giordani
- Photography: Charles Suin
- Editing: Christian Gaudin
- Production companies: Eminente Films – Méditerranée Cinéma Production
- Distribution company: Gaumont
Distribution
- Noël-Noël: Aimé Morin, a brave provincial bookseller running for mayor
- Jacqueline Gauthier: Henriette Bonnel, the lady of the train ” victim of this pig of Morin
- Yves Robert: Labarge, a journalist allied with Morin’s political enemies
- Jacqueline Pagnol: Louisette, the hotel owner’s kind niece who takes a liking to Aimé
- Noël Roquevert: Bonnel, Henriette’s terrible husband ; owner of the hotel
- Suzet Maïs: Mrs Genlis, Aimé’s fiancée who only wants his money
- Jean Poiret: a gendarme
- Michel Serrault: a gendarme
- Fernand Sardou: the police commissioner
- Elaine Dana: the stripper
- Luce Fabiole
- Nina Myral
- Joëlle Robin
- Hélène Tossy
- Dany Cintra
