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Director:
Henri Verneuil
Writers:
Georges Simenon (novel)
Jacques Companéez (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
21 February 1959 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
A doctor in southern France takes a mistress but lives to regret it. full summary | add synopsis
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Fernandel in Simenon's world. more

Cast

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Fernandel ... Dr. Charles Pellegrin
Françoise Arnoul ... Martine Englebert
Jacques Castelot ... Boquet, le propriétaire du 'Poker bar'
René Génin ... Dr. Marchandeau
Fernand Sardou ... Fontvielle
Pierrette Bruno ... Toinette
Manuel Gary ... Jacky
Max Dalcourt
Odette Charblay
Mireille Ponsard
Micheline Gary ... Lea
Hélène Tossy ... Mme Rochemaure (as Hélène Tossis)
Jacques Gencel ... Justin (as Jacky Gencel)
Yannick Malloire ... Une fillette du docteur / Pellegrin's daughter (as Yanick Malloire)
Marie Martine ... Une fillette du docteur
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Forbidden Fruit (UK) (USA)
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Runtime:
100 min | USA:92 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15
Company:
Gray-Film more

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1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
Fernandel in Simenon's world., 3 January 2007
Author: dbdumonteil

It might seem strange but Fernandel's talent was huge in dramas as well.Most of his parts in Marcel Pagnol's works verged on tragic anyway.

The film begins with the celebration of Doctor Pellegrin's forty-fifth birthday.He seems a happy man with a beautiful wife .Henri Verneuil (then a much better director than in the sixties when he made blockbusters by the dozen) introduces his hero with a painting first.

A very long flash back tells us that the doctor's life was not a happy one;his wife was a straight bourgeois lady and he fell for a young girl ,Martine (Françoise Arnoul who sometimes steals the show from the star).

The story is not really quirky but the cast (which also includes the excellent Sylvie)makes up for it.There are also nice pictures of Arles (and the Alyscamps,the biggest Roman necropolis in France.

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