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Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow attracted by their world : Loulou and Jo are crooks. As Marcel naively tries to bring some morality in their lives, the pair turn him into an unwilling accomplice in the robbery of his boss's jewels.

This is Lehman&#39;s only claim to fame,although he was helped by Claude Autant-Lara who was to become one of the most important directors of the years to come(&quot;Douce&quot;,&quot;le diable au corps&quot;).It&#39;s not much of a plot (a fric frac=break-in),but the fabulous threesome make it a winner.Michel Simon plays a gentle thug,so lazy his nickname is &quot;Jo with the arms cut&quot;.Arletty is Loulou ,a whore who teaches slang to the respectable Marcel ,a clerk in a jeweller&#39;s shop ,object of his two &quot;friends&#39; &quot; desire.A lot of fun is guaranteed for all!

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To all intents and purposes this is a Claude Autant-Lara film, the Producer, Lehman, in a touch of the Irving Mills&#39; gave himself a director credit (Irving Mills was a music publisher who used to &#39;cut himself in&#39; on songs written by Duke Ellington). Alas, they chose to utilise Parisian slang which today is not only dated but almost incomprehensible even to provincial French but that is the only cavil. We can overlook the plot - Fernandel is, to put it kindly, naive or, as we would say today, not streetwise; he&#39;s an assistant to a jeweller, a quality which hooker Arletty immediately finds more appealing than good manners, charm, handsomeness and given that Marcel (Fernandel) has had it up to here with the boss&#39;s daughter making sheeps&#39; eyes at him he is ripe for &#39;grooming&#39; as a jewel thief. The third member of the standout trio is Michel Simon as the laziest thief in town. For the rest of the film-going world Jean Gabin was virtually the Only French male actor between the wars which was tough on the likes of Simon, Jules Berry, Julian Carette, Bernard Blier, Charles Vanel etc. Simon in fact earned recognition earlier than Gabin when he played the eponymous Boudu who was saved from drowning by a bookseller who lived to regret it and he more than held his own with Gabin in Quai des Brumes. In short, we watch this today to see three thoroughbreds in their prime and we do not watch in vain. Once again a nod in the direction of Scandinavia without whom ...

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Fernandel is a jeweler, working for Marcel Vallée. Hélène Robert, the boss&#39;s uptight daughter, is sweet on him, but when Fernandel meets Michel Simon and Arletty at the bicycle races, he falls for the latter. Because he is an innocent, he doesn&#39;t realize they&#39;re crooks, and Arletty&#39;s boyfriend is away for six months, in prison, so Fernandel imagines he&#39;s in with a chance.<br/><br/>With a cast like that, you expect something great, and that&#39;s what you get. Arletty is a hard case, Simon is a lazy drunkard, and Fernandel finds himself in over his head. There are some lovely scenes like Simon running three-card Monte with Arletty as his shill, and the scene where the two men drunkenly bond is hilarious.

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