The Cupboard Was Bare

The Cupboard Was Bare

90 mins | Crime, Comedy | Oct. 29, 1948

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.

The Cupboard Was Bare

90 mins | Crime, Comedy | Oct. 29, 1948

The Cupboard Was Bare
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers
Original title L'armoire volante
Directors Carlo Rim, Bernard Borderie
Writers Carlo Rim

Cast

Fernandel

as Alfred Puc

Berthe Bovy

as Madame Lea Lobligeois

Germaine Kerjean

as Madame Coufignac

Albert Dinan

as P'tit Louis

Annette Poivre

as Mimi /

Robert Pizani

as Medic /

Marcel Pérès

as Frejus /

Marcelle Monthil

as La cliente /

Gaston Modot

as Un gangster

Pauline Carton

as Mme Ovide

Jean Toulout

as The Actor

Louis Florencie

as Le notaire

Paul Demange

as Le Frise

Georgé

as

Bedel

as

Mylos

as