The Man from Nowhere
Released: February 18, 1937Runtime: 88 minLanguage: FR
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
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Pierre Blanchar
as Adrien Meis
Isa Miranda
as Louise Paléari
Catherine Fonteney
as La veuve Pescatore
Ginette Leclerc
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Palau
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Marcel Vallee
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Charles Granval
as Octavio Meis
Pierre Alcover
as Malagna
Charlotte Barbier Krauss
as Angelica Bonafede Pascal
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