Les Casse-pieds (1948)
Directed by Jean Dréville

Comedy

Film Synopsis

A knowledgable lecturer sets out to enumerate all of the different kinds of nuisance which blight our everyday lives. There are the facetious know-alls, the excrescences that insist on ringing you up just when you have sat down to dinner, and the greatest pestilence of them all: women drivers...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Jean Dréville
  • Script: Edward Kingsley, Noël-Noël
  • Cinematographer: Léonce-Henri Burel
  • Music: René Cloërec
  • Cast: Noël-Noël (Lecturer), Bernard Blier (Bernard), Jean Tissier (Jean), Henri Crémieux (Henri), Pierre Destailles (L'employé du gaz), Marguerite Deval (Margurite), René Blancard (Thomas), Paul Frankeur (Le blagueur), Georges Questau (Le postillonneur), Jacques Mattler (L'industriel), Charles Vissière (Le speaker), Claire Olivier (La dame qui porte en ville), Elisa Lamotte (La dame qui conduit mal), Marion Tourès (L'amoureuse), Aline André (L'epouse), La Houppa (La fille), Madeleine Barbulée (La chanteuse), Micheline Rolla, Cécile Eddy, Maryse Martin
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 75 min

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