Monsieur Leguignon, lampiste
1952 Comedy / Drama
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Summary
Diogène Leguignon is a modest railway worker for whom things seldom tend to go
right. Having been expelled from his home, he and his wife are forced into a rundown
house in a less desirable part of town. Unknown to Leguignon, a band of local children
have discovered a stash of treasure and keep it concealed under the floorboards in his
house. When Leguignon attempts to claim ownership of the treasure, he ends up in
court and is branded a thief. When he is released from jail, he persuades his neighbours
to use the money gained from the sale of the treasure to build a new housing estate.
But to raise the extra capital to complete the project, Leguignon has to turn to some
very unscrupulous bankers...
Review
Based on a celebrated radio play, "Le Tribunal", Monsieur Leguignon, lampiste is
a heart-warming mix of comedy and melodrama, presumably intended to help lift the spirits
of the working classes in the midst of post-war economic gloom. The film certainly
has some bold left-wing undertones, with solidarity of the working classes, parodying
of the French legal system and outright condemnation of self-serving money traders being
its main themes. Yves Deniaud gives a sympathetic performance as an ordinary
working class man who manages to defeat bad luck and human malice, through a combination
of naïve optimism and generosity of spirit. The great Louis de Funès
appears fleetingly in this film, well over a decade before he established himself as one
of France’s leading film comics.
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