Maxim's Porter
At least the third time writer/director Yves Mirande had been transferred to the screen; Diamant-Berger is not much of a director, but the excellent cast makes up for it :Yves Deniaud , excellent as the chasseur (bellboy) of the poshest place in Paris: you should see his face when the marquis steals his lover from him and she acts as they've never met; or his nouveau riche demeanor when thanks to his lucrative job,he retires and buys his rival's castle. His speeches the syntax of which is dubious when he becomes a notable .Pierre Larquey as a meek bishop ,who prefers the new chatelaine's whisky to the parochial orangeade is irresistible. Raymond Bussières as the gamekeeper is a good mate; Gerard Séty heavy made up to look "Eastern " who stalks female preys for his royal master and can reward his helps by making them "commanders of the blue dromadary ".A young Jean Piat ,future stage and TV actor, patronizing ,snob, a womanizer always short of the readies .The plot is outright silly ,but the actors survive such a dated old-fashioned theatre de boulevard. No small feat.
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