The Heroic Mr. Boniface (1949)

November. 11,1949

5.6

| Comedy

A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body in his own bed.

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Cast

Fernandel as Boniface

[1963] My Wife's Husband [1963] Good King Dagobert [1962] The Devil and the Ten Commandments [1961] Don Camillo: Monsignor [1959] The Cow and I [1958] The Man in the Raincoat

Andrex as Charlie

[1964] Monsieur [1963] Magnet of Doom [1963] My Wife's Husband [1956] If Paris Were Told to Us [1951] The Sleepwalker [1949] The Heroic Mr. Boniface

Charles Bouillaud as Le troisième gangster

[1949] The Heroic Mr. Boniface

Reviews

Titreenp

1949/11/11

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Micransix

1949/11/12

Crappy film

WiseRatFlames

1949/11/13

An unexpected masterpiece

Manthast

1949/11/14

Absolutely amazing

dbdumonteil

1949/11/15

This "Mr Boniface" was so successful that a sequel ,"Boniface Somnambule" was filmed ;today it does not pass for a great Fernandel movie ;the screenplay is rather poor and the lines lack wit ,madness and finally humor;the movie is padded out with three songs,each one lousier than the one before .Fernandel plays a simple man,like he often did -apparently a moron,but he who laughs last laughs best ,as everybody knows- who gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body in his own bed (natural death;it was apparently a showdown but he died of a heart attack); A window dresser,Boniface is in love with one of the girls of the shop;his adventures will help him conquer her .