The Cupboard Was Bare

The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)

ComedyCrime

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.

Director: Carlo Rim

Casts

	Fernandel as Alfred Puc
	Berthe Bovy as Madame Léa Lobligeois
	Germaine Kerjean as Madame Coufignac
	Albert Dinan as 'P'tit Louis'
	Annette Poivre as Mimi
	Robert Pizani as Medic
	Marcel Pérès as Frejus
	Marcelle Monthil as Client
	Gaston Modot as Gangster
	Pauline Carton as Mrs. Ovide
	Jean Toulout as Actor
	Louis Florencie as Notary
	Paul Demange as 'Le Frisé'
	Maximilienne as Salvation Army commander
	André Bervil as First regular
	Nina Myral as First gossip
	Jean Témerson as Second regular
	Christiane Sertilange as Young bride
	Jean Daurand as Young groom
	Katherine Kath as Actress
	Jacques Tarride as Auctioneer
	Georgé as
	René Hell as Stage manager
	Robert Noël as
	Zélie Yzelle as Second gossip
	Luc Andrieux as Third regular
	Raymond Destac as
	François Richard as Commissioner
	Marcel Melrac as
	Bedel as Movers
	Edmond Beauchamp as Commissioner
	Yves Deniaud as Monsieur Martinet
	Antonin Berval as 'Grand Charles'
	Albert Broquin as Inspector (uncredited)
	Rivers Cadet as Boirot (uncredited)
	Liliane Charpentier as (uncredited)
	Pierre Duncan as (uncredited)
	Édouard Francomme as (uncredited)
	Henry Gerrar as Employee (uncredited)
	René Lacourt as Salvationist (uncredited)
	Palmyre Levasseur as Actress (uncredited)
	Marcel Loche as Cornu (uncredited)
	Paola Manelli as (uncredited)
	Albert Michel as Agent (uncredited)
	Mylos as (uncredited)
	Frédéric O'Brady as Inspector (uncredited)

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