
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
Cast

Fernandel
Emile Boulard

Alexandre Rignault
Ladislas Stany

Noëlle Norman
Suzanne Boulard

Félix Oudart
Romi, the director

Bernard Lajarrige
Daniel Cormier

Roland Armontel
Dibier
Jacqueline Dor
Martine Boulard
Madeleine Lambert
Madame Cormier

Jean Hébey
The notary's clerk
Line Dariel
Madame Zulma
Missia
The singer

Henri Coutet
The actor

André Marnay
The notary

Pierre Labry
The boss
Jean Sylvain
A machinist
Janine Viénot
The actress

Palmyre Levasseur
The dresser

Émile Riandreys
Unknown

Eugène Compain
Unknown
Marcel Meral
Unknown

Georges Sellier
Unknown

Albert Broquin
An extra

Lud Germain
Bimbo

Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Passer-by (uncredited)
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