Drole de Drame
(1937)
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Drole de Drame
(1937)
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Louis Jouvet | ... |
Archibald Soper
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Françoise Rosay | ... |
Margaret Molyneux
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| Michel Simon | ... |
Irwin Molyneux
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Jean-Pierre Aumont | ... |
Billy
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| Jean-Louis Barrault | ... |
William Kramps dit Le tueur de bouchers
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Nadine Vogel | ... |
Eva
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Pierre Alcover | ... |
L'inspecteur-chef Bray
(as Alcover)
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Henri Guisol | ... |
Buffington
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Agnès Capri | ... |
La chanteuse des rues
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René Génin | ... |
Le balayeur
(as Génin)
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Ky Duyen | ... |
L'hôtelier chinois de Soho
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Marcel Duhamel | ... |
Le fêtard amoureux des enterrements
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Jane Loury | ... |
Mrs. McPhearson
(as Jeanne Lory)
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Madeleine Suffel | ... |
Victory
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Jenny Burnay | ... |
Madame Pencil
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In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted but still keeping the appearance due to the successful crime novels written by Irwin under the pseudonym of Felix Chapel. Their cook has just left the family, when Irwin's snoopy and hypocrite cousin Archibald Soper that is in campaign against the police stories of Felix Chapel invites himself to have dinner in Irwin's house. Margaret decides to keep the farce of their social position secretly cooking the dinner, while the clumsy Irwin justifies her absence telling the bishop Soper that she had just traveled to the country to meet some friends. However Soper suspects of Irwin and calls the Scotland Yard, assuming that his cousin had poisoned his wife. Irwin and Margaret decide to hide the truth to avoid an exposition of their financial situation, moving to a low-budget hotel in the Chinese neighborhood, getting into trouble. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
I haven't read the other user comments but whoever did the summary for this film possibly hasn't seen it! It has absolutely nothing to do with a serial killer of women (the killer in question kills butchers because they kill animals) and Soper accuses his cousin Molyneux of having poisoned his (Molyneux's) wife. The whole thing is an absurdist's delight -- a French film set in a London that never was.