Deputy Eusèbe (French: Eusèbe député) is a 1939 French comedy film directed by André Berthomieu and starring Michel Simon, Elvire Popesco and Jules Berry.Crisp p.451Bessy & Chirat p.429 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys.
Synopsis Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, discovers that a candidate is running for Chamber of Deputies. It becomes clear that a corrupt businessman is pushing a candidate, having usurped his identity, in order to secure backing for a new casino project. The real Eusèbe goes to Paris to investigate and is persuaded by the flamboyant actress Mariska to really stand in the election. He wins and is elected as a deputy where he becomes an unwitting tool of corrupt interests.
Cast Michel Simon as Eusèbe Bonbonneau Elvire Popesco as Mariska Jules Berry as Félix Jacassar Marguerite Moreno as Émilie Bonbonneau André Lefaur as Le comte de Marignan Gaston Dubosc as Le notaire Marcelle Rexiane as La secrétaire René Bergeron as Pinson Albert Broquin as Le régisseur Hugues de Bagratide as Un invité Henri de Livry as Le patron du restaurant Paul Demange as Le concierge Georges Douking as Firmin Louis Florencie as Le ministre Édouard Francomme as Un électeur Jean Heuzé as Le commissaire Jean Hébey as Le maître d'hôtel Gaston Mauger as Gaburon Marthe Mussine as Yvonne Solange Jane Pierson as L'habilleuse Robert Seller as L'acteur
References
Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: encyclopédie des films, Volume 2. Pygmalion, 1986. Crisp, Colin. Genre, Myth and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939. Indiana University Press, 2002. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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