The Cupboard Was Bare

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.

Cast for The Cupboard Was Bare...

Fernandel
Alfred Puc
Berthe Bovy
Madame Lea Lobligeois
Germaine Kerjean
Madame Coufignac
Albert Dinan
P'tit Louis
Gaston Modot
Un gangster
Jean Toulout
The Actor
Louis Florencie
Le notaire
Paul Demange
Le Frise
Maximilienne
La commandante de l'armée du salut
André Bervil
Le premier habitué
Nina Myral
La première commère
Jean Témerson
Le deuxième habitué
Christiane Sertilange
La jeune mariée
Jean Daurand
Le jeune marié
Jacques Tarride
Le commissaire-priseur
René Hell
Le régissseur
Zélie Yzelle
La deuxième commère
Luc Andrieux
Le troisième habitué
François Richard
Un commissaire
Bedel
Les déménageurs
Edmond Beauchamp
Le commissaire
Yves Deniaud
Monsieur Martinet
Antonin Berval
Grand Charles
Albert Broquin
Un Inspecteur (uncredited)
Rivers Cadet
Boirot (uncredited)
Pierre Duncan
(uncredited)
Édouard Francomme
(uncredited)
Henry Gerrar
Un employé (uncredited)
René Lacourt
Un salutiste (uncredited)
Palmyre Levasseur
Une actrice (uncredited)
Marcel Loche
Cornu (uncredited)
Paola Manelli
(uncredited)
Albert Michel
Un agent (uncredited)
Mylos
(uncredited)
Frédéric O'Brady
Un inspecteur (uncredited)