Mon frangin du Sénégal (1953)

A photographer is in love with the grocer's daughter.Alas the girl is an adventures movie fan and spends her time daydreaming of Gary Cooper or Eroll Flynn .

Director:

Guy Lacourt

Writer:

Norbert Carbonnaux

Stars:

Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Noël Roquevert

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Raymond Bussières	...	Jules Pinson / César Pinson
Annette Poivre	...	Annette Bridoux
Noël Roquevert	...	L'épicier Bridoux
Paulette Dubost	...	Séraphine - la servante de M. Pinson
Paul Demange	...	Le colonel
Marcelle Arnold	...	Mlle Angèle
Jacques Fabbri	...	Le brigadier de gendarmerie (as Jacques Fabri)
Sophie Sel	...	Mlle Sophie - la fleuriste
Irène Bréor	...	La chanteuse
Gisèle Grandpré	...	La maman
Lud Germain	...	Le Noir engagé comme commis
Martine Beauvais	...	La dame au petit chien
Louis Viret	...	Le monsieur qui pose des affiches
Samson	...	Le lion
Louis de Funès	...	Le docteur (as De Funes)

Storyline

A photographer is in love with the grocer's daughter.Alas the girl is an adventures movie fan and spends her time daydreaming of Gary Cooper or Eroll Flynn .To seduce the girl ,the poor lad invents an imaginary brother from Senegal who comes to visit him.But it's a hard work to play two parts and it's a real juggling art to make both of them live.One find day ,a lion escapes from the menagerie and "brother,show us what you can do".

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

20 November 1953 (France)

Also Known As:

Mijn broer uit Senegal

Company Credits

Production Co:

Société Lyonnaise de Production de Films (S.L.P.F.)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Out of Africa

A photographer is in love with the grocer's daughter.Alas the girl is an adventures movie fan and spends her time daydreaming of Gary Cooper or Eroll Flynn (you should hear Noel Roquevert pronounce the actors' names).To seduce the girl ,the poor lad invents an imaginary brother from Senegal who comes to visit him.But it's a hard work to play two parts and it's a real juggling art to make both of them live.

Raymond Bussières manages quite well in the kind of performance Fernandel and Michel Simon had already broached .The movie is perfect Saturday-night-at-the -movies-in-the -fifties stuff ,and it's pretty funny,although it loses steam in the final episodes ,notably those of the native and of the lion,probably inspired by Alphonse Daudet's "Tartarin De Tarascon" .Louis De Funès has two scenes:he's cast as a doc ,actually a charlatan à la Doctor Knock.

Roquevert's grocery store where you can buy anything ,where a nice sign on the wall reads "we are unable to give credit to our customers at the risk of making ourselves enemies",is now a thing of the past ,which slowly but inexorably began to disappear in the late sixties ,with the expansion of the supermarkets . The grocer sells absolutely everything:he can even offer products of Senegal;and there's a poster of every movie now showing in the theater:hence the daughter's passion.