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- Lise is bored with her parents and is looking for a job as a waitress.
- How a weak priest ,armed up with love ,a hat ,an umbrella and a breviary became the regiment's champ.
- The marchioness of Botarin secretly exchanges passionate letters with Jean, a young sailor. What Jean doesn't know is that the lady of his heart is twice as old as he thinks, for the photo she has sent her was one of her young niece Jacqueline, instead of her. Things get complicated when Jean turns up at the Botarin manor, escorted by two other sailors. The young man immediately falls under the spell of Jacqueline, which drives the marchioness crazy. The latter resorts to various subterfuges to separate the lovebirds, but to no avail. She will end up marrying a gendarme who has been her suitor for years while Jean weds his beloved Jacqueline.
- Can Harry get away with the murder of a star?
- A troupe of veteran character actors graces this low budget Labiche adaptation, in which some provincial hicks blow their wad in Paris, are assumed to be crooks, and twice land up in jail.
- The middle-class Veyron-Laffite family are in turmoil: their maid has turned in her apron while they're expecting important guests. The meal isn't ready and something has to be done. In the nick of time they manage to hire Adèle, a village girl who turns out to have the gift of second sight. She predicts that the Gachassins, the people they've been waiting for, won't be coming. Mrs. Veyron-Laffite realizes that having a fortune teller on hand may come in handy - especially in the field of business.
- The film is set shortly after the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, around 1818, in which the hero Lieutanatn Orso fought for the French. In Marseille, returning to Corsica and his family estate, of which is now the head, Orso meets the Irish widower Colonel Sir Thomas Nevil and his beautiful daughter Lydia. The Colonel also fought for the British at Waterloo and they strike up a military-based friendship. They also share a passion for hunting. Orso convinces the colonel to come and hunt there. France ruled Corsica then, as they still do. Sadly, in his absence Orso's father has been assassinated by the influential Barracini family. Orso's sister Colomba is bent on him revenging the murder - in the Sicilian vendetta style. Orso doesn't agree with these old ways and the scene is set for a terrible conflict involving Corsican bandits and the French prefect. The book was made into an Italian one with the same title in 1948 and remade in 1950 in Hollywood under the name of "Vendetta".
- The mothers-in-law rebel against their sons-in-law.
- A marchioness wants to marry her niece with a baron;but on the very day of her wedding,the bride escapes with her true love,a commoner.The parish priest helps them ,provided that they sleep apart of course .
- André de Kerdec, a young lawyer buys an old parchment in an antique shop and discovers that a treasure is hidden in the bedroom of Artémise, an old maid who owns a manor. He manages to be hired as her chauffeur by Artémise and sets about looking for the treasure. During this time, he falls in love with Lucie, the old spinster's niece. But the trouble is that Artémise develops a crush on André...!
- An aristocrat short of the readies ,Gontran,is to marry a wealthy girl of common birth;but he has to get rid of his lover .
- A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.