Emile the African

Emile the African — 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.

• Release date
• May 19, 1948
• Runtime
• 85 min
• Genres
• Adventure
• Director
• Robert Vernay

Emile the African — Cast

Fernandel Emile Boulard Alexandre Rignault Ladislas Stany Noëlle Norman Suzanne Boulard Félix Oudart Romi, the director Bernard Lajarrige Daniel Cormier Roland Armontel Dibier

J

Jacqueline Dor Martine Boulard

M

Madeleine Lambert Madame Cormier