The Cupboard Was Bare
1 hour 30 minutes1948-10-29
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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
Fernandel
Alfred Puc
Berthe Bovy
Madame Lea Lobligeois
Germaine Kerjean
Madame Coufignac
Albert Dinan
P'tit Louis
Annette Poivre
Mimi
Robert Pizani
Medic
Marcel Pérès
Frejus
Marcelle Monthil
La cliente
Gaston Modot
Un gangster
Pauline Carton
Mme Ovide
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
Katherine Kath
L'actrice
Jacques Tarride
Le commissaire-priseur
Georgé
René Hell
Le régissseur
Robert Noël
Zélie Yzelle
La deuxième commère
Luc Andrieux
Le troisième habitué
Raymond Destac
François Richard
Un commissaire
Marcel Melrac
Bedel
Les déménageurs
Edmond Beauchamp
Le commissaire
Yves Deniaud
Monsieur Martinet
Antonin Berval
Grand Charles
Albert Broquin
Un Inspecteur (uncredited)
Rivers Cadet
Boirot (uncredited)
Liliane Charpentier
(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)
