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The Acrobat

1941 · 90 min

A breezy, good-natured farce that coasts on mistaken identity and a likable lead's comic mugging.

Directed by
Jean Boyer
Genres
Adventure, Comedy
Starring
Fernandel, Jean Tissier, Thérèse Dorny
Overview
After a deadbeat patron at his restaurant gets special care from the cops who think the man has amnesia, the maitre d'hotel decides to pretend he too has amnesia. He is claimed in turn by an aristocrat family and by trapeze artists.

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In the UKNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.
Directed by
Jean Boyer
Genres
Adventure, Comedy
Starring
Fernandel, Jean Tissier, Thérèse Dorny
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • deception
  • family
  • class
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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Genres
adventure, comedy
Directed by
Jean Boyer
Written by
Jean Guitton
Starring
Fernandel, Jean Tissier, Thérèse Dorny, Marcel Carpentier, Jean Brochard, Paulette Berger, Lucien Callamand, Pierre Labry
Runtime
90 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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