La Polka des menottes (1957)

September. 04,1957

6.3

| Comedy Crime

Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.

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Cast

Francis Blanche as un voisin

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Jean Lefebvre as l'inspecteur Martial

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Pascale Audret as Elisabeth Matheu

[1957] La Polka des menottes

Reviews

GamerTab

1957/09/04

That was an excellent one.

Steineded

1957/09/05

How sad is this?

Afouotos

1957/09/06

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

FirstWitch

1957/09/07

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.