Fric-Frac | |
Producer: | Maurice Lehmann |
Screenplay: | Michel Duran |
Based On: | Fric-frac by Édouard Bourdet |
Starring: | Fernandel Arletty Michel Simon |
Music: | Casimir Oberfeld |
Editing: | Victoria Mercanton |
Runtime: | 120 minutes |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Fric-Frac is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara and starring Fernandel, Arletty and Michel Simon. It tells the story of Marcel, an assistant to a jeweller, who befriends a couple of criminals who want to use him as an accomplice to rob his boss. The film is based on a 1936 play by Édouard Bourdet. Filming took place in March and April 1939 at the Laboratoires et Studios Eclair in Épinay-sur-Seine.[1] The film was released in France on 15 June 1939.[2]
According to Arletty, Claude Autant-Lara did all the direction and Maurice Lehmann was mainly the producer.[3]