One purges baby (film, 1931)

Synopsis

Mr Follavoine seeks to take down the market of the unbreakable chamberpots bound for the French Army. To try to conclude the business, it invites to dine Chouilloux, influencing civil servant of the ministry for the armies, his wife and the lover of this one. But this day, the Follavoine son is constipé and does not want to take its purging… and nothing occurs as envisaged.

Comments

One purges baby is the first talking film about Jean Renoir. It has it mainly carried out to be able to make the following, the Bitch , which required an important budget.

While turning One purges baby in less than one week, while assembling it the following week and while leaving it in the tread, Renoir wanted to show the producers who it was able to work very quickly and to save to them money: One purges baby was a large success at its exit.

Data sheet

Title: One purges baby
Réalisation: Jean Renoir
Assistants: Claude Heymann and Pierre Schawb
Scenario: Jean Renoir and Pierre Prévert according to Georges Feydeau
Production: Pierre Braunberger and Roger Richebé
Directing of production: Charles David
Administrator: Roger Woog
Music: Paul Misraki
Photography: Theodor Sparkuhl and Roger Hubert
Assembly: Jean Granny
Decorations: Gabriel Scognamillo
Photographer of plate: Roger Forster
Sound: D.F Scanlon, Boom operator: Bugnon
Country of origin: France
Turning: from March 25th to 31st 1931 with the studios of Billancourt
Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Recording: Western-Electric
Manager: Strapping man
Kind: Comedy
Lasted: 62 minutes (1.700m)
Coming out date: June 21st 1931 with the Roxy with Paris

Distribution

Fernandel : The cousin Horace Truchet
Marguerite Pierry: Julie Follavoine, the woman
Jacques Louvigny: Mr. Follavoine, originator of the chamber pot
Michel Simon: Mr. Chouilloux, civil servant with the ministry for the armies
Olga Valéry: Mrs. Clémence Chouilloux, the woman
Nicole Fernandez: Rose, the good one of the " Follavoine"
Sacha Tarride : Louse Follavoine, the little boy

Remakes

One purges baby (1961) of Marcel Bluwal with Jacqueline Maillan and Jean Poiret for television
One purges baby (1979) of Jeannette Hubert with Bernard Blier and Danielle Darrieux for television
One purges baby (1996) of Yves-Andre Hubert with Michel Galabru for television

See too

One purges baby on Internet Movie Database

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