Hercule

"Hercule" is of interest as a French equivalent of the kind of newspaper comedy that was popular at the time in Hollywood, but tailored here as a vehicle for the popular character of Fernandel, who had four other films in release that year of 1938.

He is the country bumpkin (coming from Provence and never having been in Paris) who is taken advantage of by city slickers, in this case Jules Berry as the paper's advertising manager, when you see Berry in a movie from this era you expect something devious is going to happen.

K Fisherman that he is down South, Hercule is out of his depth taking over "L'Incorruptible" which was run by his recently deceased father, but his secretary played by Gaby Morlay, who actually gets first billing, and a faithful journalist played by a young Pierre Brasseur, help to save the day.