Emile the African

Emile the African

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 for Emile the African...

Fernandel
Emile Boulard
Alexandre Rignault
Ladislas Stany
Noëlle Norman
Suzanne Boulard
Félix Oudart
Romi, the director
Bernard Lajarrige
Daniel Cormier
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
Sylvain
A machinist
Janine Viénot
The actress
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra
Passer-by (uncredited)