Fric-Frac

1939 film

Maurice Lehmann
Claude Autant-Lara (uncredited)

Screenplay byMichel DuranBased onFric-frac by Édouard BourdetProduced byMaurice LehmannStarringFernandel
Arletty
Michel SimonCinematography

Louis Née
Armand Thirard

Edited byVictoria MercantonMusic byCasimir Oberfeld

Release date

15 June 1939 (1939-06-15)

Running time

120 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

Fric-Frac is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara and starring Fernandel, Arletty and Michel Simon. It tells the story of Marcel, an assistant to a jeweller, who befriends a couple of criminals who want to use him as an accomplice to rob his boss. The film is based on a 1936 play by Édouard Bourdet. Filming took place in March and April 1939 at the Laboratoires et Studios Eclair in Épinay-sur-Seine.^[1] The film was released in France on 15 June 1939.^[2]

Cast

Fernandel as Marcel
Arletty as Loulou
Michel Simon as Jo
Hélène Robert as Renée
Marcel Vallée as Mercadier, the jeweller
Jacques Varennes as Tintin
Andrex as Petit Louis
René Génin as Blin
Georges Lannes as Fernand
Génia Vaury as La Grande Marie

Production

According to Arletty, Claude Autant-Lara did all the direction and Maurice Lehmann was mainly the producer.^[3]

References

Wikiquote has quotations related to Fric-Frac.

^ "Anecdotes du film Fric-frac". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2015-06-28.
^ "Fric-frac". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Retrieved 2015-06-28.
^ Gilles, Christian (1988). Arletty ou la liberté d'être. Librairie Séguier. p. 72. ISBN 9782906284869.