Movielogr
The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)
Directed by Carlo Rim
Overview
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can’t claim an inheritance if there is no ‘corpus delecti.’ In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn’t “finis’ time, yet.
Length 90 minutes
Actors
Fernandel | Berthe Bovy | Germaine Kerjean | Albert Dinan | Annette Poivre | Robert Pizani | Marcel Pérès | Marcelle Monthil | Gaston Modot | Pauline Carton | Jean Toulout | Louis Florencie | Paul Demange | Maximilienne | André Bervil | Nina Myral | Jean Témerson | Christiane Sertilange | Jean Daurand | Katherine Kath | Jacques Tarride | Georgé | René Hell | Robert Noël | Zélie Yzelle | Luc Andrieux | Raymond Destac | François Richard | Marcel Melrac | Bedel | Edmond Beauchamp | Yves Deniaud | Antonin Berval | Albert Broquin | Rivers Cadet | Liliane Charpentier | Pierre Duncan | Edouard Francomme | Henry Gerrar | René Lacourt | Palmyre Levasseur | Marcel Loche | Paola Manelli | Albert Michel | Mylos | Frédéric O'Brady