The Cupboard Was Bare

The Cupboard Was Bare

6.51948· 90 min· France
ComedyCrime

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.

Director
Carlo Rim
Country
France

Cast

F

Fernandel

BB

Berthe Bovy

GK

Germaine Kerjean

JC

Jacques Chevalier

YD

Yves Deniaud

GM

Gaston Modot

AM

Albert Michel

Maximilienne

Maximilienne

MP

Marcel Pérès

KK

Katherine Kath

CS

Christiane Sertilange

ÉM

Émile Mylo

AB

Albert Broquin

AD

Albert Dinan

AM

Albert Malbert

AB

André Bervil

AP

Annette Poivre

AB

Antonin Berval

CL

Charles Lavialle

EB

Edmond Beauchamp

FO

Frédéric O'Brady

HC

Henri Charrett

JD

Jean Daurand

JT

Jean Témerson