Le mort en fuite

Jules Berry and Michel Simon are two bottom-of-the-barrel actors with tiny roles. They conceive a plan for publicity. They will quarrel at the theater. They will quarrel at their rooming house. Then Berry will take their meager savings and disappear. Simon will stand trial for Berry's murder and be found guilty. Then Berry will reappear and the publicity will made them celebrities, able to practice their craft at the highest level and salary. After a time when no one notices that Berry has disappeared, it goes as they have planned. However, Berry is seized and put on trial as someone else, and cannot return to save Simon.

Simon's sad-sack character was made for him, as he sits disconsolate in his cell,his head shaved, with a lawyer played by Marcel Vibert who reproaches him for not being found unfit to stand trial. Berry is also funny as the slightly less dimwitted member of the pair who finds himself seized and standing trial in a language he does not understand. Marie Glory has a funny turn as the shapely but untalented object of their supposed quarrel.