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The Man from Nowhere

6.8 88 mins Drama   1937
Christian Stengel  
Director(s): Pierre Chenal

Release Date: 18 Thu, Feb 1937

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.

Casts of The Man from Nowhere

Pierre Blanchar

as Mathias Pascal / Adrien Meis

Isa Miranda

as Louise Paleari

Robert Le Vigan

as Le comte Papiano

Ginette Leclerc

as Romilda Pescatore

Catherine Fonteney

as Delphine Pescatore

Charlotte Barbier-Krauss

as Angelica Fede Pascal

Margo Lion

as Mlle Caporale

Sinoël

as Henri Paleari

Maximilienne

as La tante Scholastique

Pierre Palau

as Le chevalier Titus

Pierre Alcover

as Malagna, l'ancien prétendant et notaire de Madame Pascal

Léonce Corne

as l'hôtelier du Luxor

Louis Daquin

as le concierge de l'hôtel

Gaston Dupray

as le directeur du journal

René Génin

as l'ivrogne

Jean Hébey

as Pomino, le fils du maire, employé de l'état civil, qui épousera Romilda en secondes noces

Robert Moor

as Le fossoyeur

Marcel Vallée

as le maire, père de Pomino

Charles Granval

as Ottavio Meis, un homme qui se croit le cousin de Mathias

Yvonne Yma

as Adèle Meis, sa femme

Paquita Claude

as Pepita, une jeune pensionnaire

Marcel Lupovici

as Beraldez

Georges Douking

as le domestique simplet de la pension Paleari

Enrico Glori

as le coiffeur

Henri Giquel

as le docteur Basile, un pensionnaire

Dax Berthy

as le curé

Charles Léger

as le bibliothécaire à la retraite

Louis Daquin

as (non crédité)

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