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Tartarin de Tarascon

4.8 115 mins Comedy   1962
Jad Films   Princia  
Director(s): Francis Blanche

A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.

Casts of Tartarin de Tarascon

Francis Blanche

as Antoine Tartarin

Jacqueline Maillan

as Mrs. Bézuquet

Michel Galabru

as Barbassou

Alfred Adam

as Prince Gregori of Montenegro

Camille Guérini

as Victor Bombonnel

Paul Préboist

as Costecade

Alain Bouvette

as Fracca

Robert Porte

as Bézuquet

Annick Tanguy

as Baja

Hubert Deschamps

as Ladévèze

Gaston Orbal

as Bravida

Michel Emer

as Pianist

Maryse Paillet

as Berthe Fracca

Joe Sentieri

as Singer in the train carriage

Raoul André

as Locomotive engineer

Yvan Audouard

as Porter

Bourvil

as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped

Darry Cowl

as Man broken down in the desert

Jean Richard

as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus

Raymond Devos

as Motorist

Roger Pierre

as Scout

Georges de Caunes

as Radio reporter

Henri Salvador

as Gamekeeper who shoots himself in the foot

Albert Hugues

as Tholosan, cafe owner

Ibrahim Seck

as Owner of the blind lion

Edith Fontaine

as Jeanne, maid

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