Compartiment de dames seules (1936)

Director:

Christian-Jaque

Writers:

Jean-Henri Blanchon (adaptation), Jean-Henri Blanchon (dialogue),

Stars:

Armand Bernard, Alice Tissot, Louis Baron fils

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Armand Bernard	...	Robert de Mérinville
Alice Tissot	...	Mme Monicourt
Louis Baron fils	...	Petit-Roncin (as Baron Fils)
Janine Merrey	...	Nicole
Pierre Stéphen	...	Philippe Thomery
Ginette Leclerc	...	Isabelle, des 'Folies Bergères'
Charles Lemontier	...	Firmin
Christiane Delyne	...	Mme Petit-Roncin
Pierre Larquey	...	Monicourt (as Larquey)

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on play

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

11 April 1936 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

Reservado para Senhoras

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Compartment lady killers./Compartiment Tombeurs

Mme Monicourt : "but,my dear,isn't it a bit too much to appear on stage wearing only a vest?"

Isabelle,des Folies Bergères: "You miss the point!I'm completely naked!"

This is a movie which is so far-fetched,so silly but so dense (there's a lot of Coups de Théâtre in a movie which lasts barely 70 min.)

Mme Monicourt ,a bourgeois matron ,(Alice Tissot) has just married her only daughter.Discovering that her son-in-law,Robert, will not be at her beck and call as her unfortunate hubby (Pierre Larquey)is ,she wants her offspring to get a divorce.

She first thinks of a Folies Bergères dancer (Ginette Leclerc)who could be a perfect mistress for Robert .But she 's got finally a better idea: one day,on a train,during a storm,Robert had an affair with a woman and she told him that woman was herself!So his wife,Nicole,is his daughter! Such a screenplay might seem inept,but it isn't !It is completely mad,involving so many affairs and so many mistaken identities it's impossible to count'em all.The flashback -Robert seduces a woman in a compartment- takes place in a cardboard train !