The Heroic Mr Boniface

the Heroic Mr Boniface is a French film carried out by Maurice Labro in 1949.

Summary

Boniface, timid window dresser, finds one evening while returning at his place a corpse in its bed. Kidnapped at its exit of the police station by the true assassin - Charlie, a gang leader - Boniface is found free and hero of the day at the following day. Adulated, celebrated and recognized, Boniface seriously starts to obstruct Charlie, which decide to remove his/her boyfriend, Irene. This gesture will give to honest Boniface the force to achieve this time, a daring knack which will put an end to the band of gangsters.

Data sheet

Realization: Maurice Labro
Scenario and Adaptation: Gerard Carlier
Dialog: Andre Tabet
Assistant realizer: Claude Boissol
Images: Marc Fossard
Assembly: Robert Isnardon
Decorations: Jacques Dovecote
Music: Louiguy
Lyric writer: Jean Manse
Songs: " Extraordinaire" , " Ah! tell me "
Sound: Raymond Gauguier
Production: French company of Cinematography - Company of the films Directing Sirius
of production: Roger de Broin
Turning from March 10th to April 16th, 1949
Film 35mm, black and white
Another title: The sympathetic nerve Mr Boniface
Lasted: 92mn
Kind: Comedy
First presentation the 10/19/1949

Distribution

Fernandel : Mr. Boniface, window dresser
Andrex: Charly, gang leader
Michel Ardan: A gangster
Yves Deniaud: A gangster
Charles Bouillaud: A gangster
Liliane Bert: Irene, the boyfriend of Boniface
Cora Camoin: A pretty girl
max Revol: The station master
Claudette Donald: A pretty girl
Palmyre Levasseur: The landlady
Marcel Loach: The landlord
Gaston Orbal: Mr. Simon
Maurice Salabert: The police chief
Julien Maffre: The lamp maker
Albert Malbert: The owner of the bar
Jacques Beauvais: The Master of hotel
François Deschamps
Joelle Robin
Yvonne Dany

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