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Boudu Saved from Drowning

Original title: Boudu sauvé des eaux
  • 1932
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 25m
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7.2/10
6.4K
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Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
SatireComedy

A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.

  • Director
    • Jean Renoir
  • Writers
    • René Fauchois
    • Jean Renoir
    • Albert Valentin
  • Stars
    • Michel Simon
    • Marcelle Hainia
    • Sévérine Lerczinska
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    • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    6.4K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jean Renoir
    • Writers
      • René Fauchois
      • Jean Renoir
      • Albert Valentin
    • Stars
      • Michel Simon
      • Marcelle Hainia
      • Sévérine Lerczinska
    • 40User reviews
    • 43Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro

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    Michel Simon
    Michel Simon
    • Priape Boudu
    Marcelle Hainia
    • Emma Lestingois
    Sévérine Lerczinska
    Sévérine Lerczinska
    • Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne
    Jean Gehret
    • Vigour
    Max Dalban
    • Godin
    Jean Dasté
    Jean Dasté
    • L'étudiant
    Charles Granval
    Charles Granval
    • Édouard Lestingois
    • (as Charles Granval de la Comédie Française)
    Geneviève Cadix
    Jacques Becker
    Jacques Becker
    • Le poète
    • (uncredited)
    Georges D'Arnoux
    • Un invité à la noce
    • (uncredited)
    Régine Lutèce
    • La promeneuse
    • (uncredited)
    Jane Pierson
    Jane Pierson
    • Rose, la voisine
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jean Renoir
    • Writers
      • René Fauchois
      • Jean Renoir
      • Albert Valentin
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    • Trivia
      French audiences were outraged by Boudu's antisocial behavior to the extent that police had to be called to several theaters to restore order. In some areas the film was immediately pulled because of its polarizing effect.
    • Quotes

      Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne: Why have a piano if no one plays it?

      Édouard Lestingois: Even so, we have a piano because we are respectable people.

    • Alternate versions
      There is an Italian DVD edition of this movie, distributed by DNA Srl. The movie was re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms. This DVD also contains another movie by Jean Renoir: Toni (1935).
    • Connections
      Edited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)
    • Soundtracks
      Générique
      Performed by Raphaël

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    Boudu Saved from Drowning

    Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

    ** 1/2 (out of 4)

    A wealthy man saves a homeless guy from drowning and then takes him into his home where the bum soon starts to seduce his wife and mistress. As Jim stated earlier I too prefer the remake Down and Out in Beverly Hills. I think the biggest problem with this film is that the homeless guy is such a jerk it's hard to really care about him and he does the dumbest things that just seem so over the top that I couldn't laugh at him either. Halfway through the movie I was wishing the rich guy had let him drown so that the movie would have already been over.
    • Michael_Elliott
    • Mar 12, 2008
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    • Release date
      • February 23, 1967 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Budi spasen iz reke
    • Filming locations
      • Berges de la Seine, Paris, France(Exterior)
    • Production companies
      • Les Établissements Jacques Haïk
      • Les Productions Michel Simon
      • Crédit Cinématographique Français (CCF)
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,805
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.19 : 1

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