As long as there are women, one will sing their praises (the bland ditty over the cast and credits) ;but misogyny won't be lost on the average viewer ; the first sequences take place in the Sorbonne where professor Mithouard teaches philosophy and where all the statues display male genius (famous writers ,all men) .
Professor Mithouard teaches about fidelity,on which the human society is based :shouldn't he be respected, all would fall down.
In his family this virtuous scholar demands generosity of spirit :he's leaving for the Clermont-Ferrand congress ; but it's a beard : he's actually visiting his lover ,a girl twice younger than him ....
If you're going to appreciate such a dud,take it as a guilty pleasure ,as an example of the lousiest French cinema of the fifties ;all the clichés are here : the professor's children who like modern music , who want to be free and who teach a lesson or two to their hypocrit daddy , the cheated woman who has the last word, the daughter who's pregnant by a four-eyes poisoned by his parents ' protection and cod-liver oil ....
Two very talented actors ,Noel Roquevert and Raymond Bussières ,and that's it.
