Tricoche and Cacolet
1938 French film
- Ludovic Halevy (play)
- Henri Meilhac (play)
- René Pujol
- Bernard Natan
- Emile Natan
- Joseph Spigler
- Fernandel
- Frédéric Duvallès
- Ginette Leclerc
Production
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Les Films Modernes
Release date
- 7 September 1938 (1938-09-07)
Running time
Tricoche and Cacolet (French: Tricoche et Cacolet) is a 1938 French comedy film directed by Pierre Colombier and starring Fernandel, Frédéric Duvallès and Ginette Leclerc.[1] It is based on an 1872 play of the same title by Ludovic Halevy and Henri Meilhac. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Synopsis
Two idle Parisian boulevardiers set up a detective agency. They are separately hired by a husband and wife to spy on each other with their respective lovers, while a Turkish Prince has fallen in love with both the wife and her husband's mistress. Eventually everything is resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
Cast
- Fernandel as Tricoche
- Frédéric Duvallès as Cacolet
- Ginette Leclerc as Fanny de Saint-Origan dite Fanny Bombance
- Elvire Popesco as Bernardine Van der Pouf
- Saturnin Fabre as Monsieur Van der Pouf
- Monique Montey as Georgette
- Palmyre Levasseur as La bonne de Tricoche
- Madeleine Suffel as Virginie - la bonne du bureau de placement
- Jean Weber as Le duc Émile
- Sylvio De Pedrelli as Oscar Pacha
- Jean Gobet as Breloque - le secrétaire
- Gaston Orbal as Fil-de-fer
- Rivers Cadet as Naphtaline
- Alexandre Mihalesco as Le régisseur
- Albert Malbert as L'acteur
- Simone Chobillon
- Manuel Gary
- Franck Maurice
- Fernand Trignol
References
- ^ Ginibre, Lithgow & Cady p.97
Bibliography
- Jean-Louis Ginibre, John Lithgow & Barbara Cady. Ladies Or Gentlemen: A Pictorial History of Male Cross-dressing in the Movies. Filipacchi Publishing, 2005.
External links
- Tricoche and Cacolet at IMDb
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Films directed by Pierre Colombier
- Paris in Five Days (1926)
- The Marriage of Rosine (1926)
- Dolly (1929)
- His Best Client (1932)
- Charlemagne (1933)
- One Night's Song (1933)
- Theodore and Company (1933)
- School for Coquettes (1935)
- Charley's Aunt (1936)
- The King (1936)
- Balthazar (1937)
- The Club of Aristocrats (1937)
- The Kings of Sport (1937)
- Ignace (1937)
- The Tamer (1938)
- Tricoche and Cacolet (1938)
- Latin Quarter (1939)
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