The comic actor will be honored on the OCS Giants channel!
Singer, actor, director, Fernandel will have marked the 7th art by his versatility and talent! This is why the OCS Giants channel will set up a Fernandel cycle: every Friday in February will be broadcast the essential black and white films of the actor!
L'Auberge Rouge – Friday, February 3 at 8:40 pm
1951 – by Claude Autant-Lara
With Fernandel, Françoise Rosay and Marie-Claire Olivia
In the nineteenth century, in the Ardèche, an innkeeper couple murdered their customers to rob them. One winter evening, a monk accompanied by his novice come to the inn where they ask for a room for the night. Innkeepers are already looking forward to the loot that awaits them. The woman, Marie, is suddenly remorseful…A comedy inspired by a tragic news item, with an amazing Fernandel in the role of the monk.
Casimir – Friday 3 February at 22:30
1950 – by Richard Pottier
With Fernandel, Bernard La Jarrige and Robert Seller
Casimir, madly in love with the pretty Denise, is a street vacuum cleaner dealer who struggles to sell his products. However, he does not want to marry her until he has raised enough money. Casimir, brilliantly played by Fernandel, finds himself involved in a chaotic situation. He then plays on this misunderstanding to try to get a huge order that could get him out of trouble…
L'Armoire Volante – Friday, February 10 at 8:40 pm
1948 – by Carlo Rim
With Fernandel, Pauline Carton and Berthe Bovy
Alfred would be a peaceful tax collector if he did not have, in the person of his cantankerous and miserly aunt, permanent opportunities for anguish and conflict. The old lady decided to go get furniture in Clermont-Ferrand. The trip must be made by truck, in a Siberian cold. And what the brave tax collector feared happens: his aunt dies of cold on the way home…
L'Héroïque, Monsieur Boniface – Friday, February 17 at 8:40 pm
1949 – by Maurice Labro
With Fernandel and Lillian Bert
Boniface leads a quiet life: window dresser, he is appreciated by all. One evening on his way home he finds a corpse in his bed. This is a thug temporarily deposed there by gangsters. While on his way to the police station to make a statement, Boniface is kidnapped by the gang, who consider him a troublesome witness…
Boniface sleepwalker – Friday, February 24 at 8:40 pm
1950 – by Maurice Labro
With Fernandel, Louis de Funès and Gaby Andreu
Irreproachable private detective at the "Berthès" stores and especially in the jewelry department, Victor Boniface is a sleepwalker who ignores himself, which leads him to steal at night what he watches so brilliantly during the day… Fernandel delivers a tasty performance in this very sympathetic suite of L'Héroïque monsieur Boniface.
To find all these films with Fernandel, go from Friday, February 3 on OCS Giants!
"He has the gift of making people
laugh who have so much reason to cry. – Marcel Pagnol
