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Mum's the Word

1960 · 90 min

A light, brisk French farce full of mistaken identities and comic confusion, easy to enjoy without much thought.

Directed by
Jean Boyer
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Darry Cowl, Judith Magre, Jacques Hilling
Overview
Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!

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Directed by
Jean Boyer
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Darry Cowl, Judith Magre, Jacques Hilling
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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 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
  • mystery
  • deception
  • crime
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour7
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight3

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Details

Genres
comedy
Directed by
Jean Boyer
Written by
Jean Boyer, Jean-Pierre Feydeau
Starring
Darry Cowl, Judith Magre, Jacques Hilling, Sacha Pitoëff, Edmond Ardisson, Catherine Samie, Georges Audoubert, Léa Gray
Music
Louiguy
Cinematography
Charles Suin
Runtime
90 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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