Sénéchal the Magnificent

Movie

Comedy

Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?

Date: 05/24/1957

Rating: 6.7

Cast: Fernandel, Nadia Gray, Madeleine Barbulée, Simone Paris, Robert Pizani, Suzanne Dehelly, Roland Armontel, Paul Azaïs, Georges Baconnet, Barbara Brault, Sacha Briquet, Jacqueline Caurat, Albert Dinan, Giovanni Guarducci, Georges Lannes, Jacques Mancier, Serge Nadaud, Gaston Orbal, Liliane Patrick, André Philip, Roland Rodier, Pierre Stéphen, Hélène Tossy, Georges Chamarat, Jeanne Aubert, Virginie Vitry, Jenny Astruc, Catherine Gay, Denise Pezzani, Max Amyl, Jack Ary, Robert Balpo, Charles Bayard, Marcel Bernier, Dominique Boschero, Charles Bouillaud, Raymond Carl, Roméo Carlès, Barbara Cruz, Gérard Darrieu, Luce Fabiole, Henri Garcin, Émile Genevois, Camille Guérini, Robert Mercier, Jane Morlet, Laure Paillette, Jimmy Perrys, Manuel Gary, Nina Myral, Fred Pasquali, Victor Tabournot

Fernandel