After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.
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Fernandel
Ernest Sauce
Known for
The Little World of Don Camillo
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Jean Tissier
Briquet
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21
...And God Created Woman
Thérèse Dorny
Pauline
Known for
Diabolique
Marcel Carpentier
Le dîneur
Known for
Carnival in Flanders
Jean Brochard
Le commissaire
Known for
Diabolique
I Vitelloni
Paulette Berger
La comtesse de Puypeux
Also in
Amour et carburateur
L'espionne aux yeux noirs
Lucien Callamand
Le médecin-chef
Known for
The Black Tulip
Fan-Fan the Tulip
Pierre Labry
Dubier
Known for
The Devil's Envoys
The Story of a Cheat
Fernand Flament
Un infirmier
Also in
Angele
La Marseillaise
Nicolas Amato
Known for
Poison
The Tale of the Fox
Les Zemgano
Les frères Brindisi
Also in
The Deadly Trap
Charles Dechamps
Le comte de Puypeux
Also in
Beating Heart
The Game of Love
Jean Boyer Director · Jean Guitton Writer
First release May 6, 1941 · Produced in France · Original title L'Acrobate
Production
Harle ccfc
Production
France
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Languages
Original title
L'Acrobate
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · May 6, 1941
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Netherlands
August 1, 1947 · Theatrical
Portugal
February 2, 1951 · Theatrical
XC
July 26, 1946 · Theatrical
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