Bizarre, Bizarre ( Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux ) ( Funny Drama or The Strange Adventures of Doctor Molyneaux (Drole de Drame) )

Bizarre, Bizarre (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Drôle de drame ou L'étrange aventure du Docteur Molyneux
Alternate Title: Funny Drama or The Strange Adventures of Doctor Molyneaux (Drole de Drame)
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
109 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1937 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Marcel Carné

Written By:
J. Storer Clouston
Jacques Prévert

Actors:
Louis Jouvet ..... Archibald Soper, l'évêque de Bedford
Françoise Rosay ..... Margaret Molyneux
Michel Simon ..... Irwin Molyneux, alias Felix Chapel
Jean-Pierre Aumont ..... Billy, le laitier
Jean-Louis Barrault ..... William Kramps
Nadine Vogel ..... Eva
Pierre Alcover ..... L'inspecteur Bray (as Alcover)
Henri Guisol ..... Buffington, le journaliste
Agnès Capri ..... La chanteuse des rues
René Génin ..... Le balayeur (as Génin)
Ky Duyen ..... L'hôtelier chinois
Marcel Duhamel ..... Un fêtard
Jeanne Lory ..... La tante McPhearson
Madeleine Suffel ..... Victory
Jenny Burnay ..... Madame Pencil

Synopsis:

Irwin Molyneux, an austere botanist, and Margaret, his spendthrift, conceited wife, are in trouble: their cook has just left them without notice. And this is just the time chosen by Archibald Soper, bishop of Bedford and Irwin's cousin, to invite himself to dinner. Margaret decides to cook the meal herself but Soper, a greedy, sanctimonious zealot, must not know about this degrading situation, which is why she asks Irwin to make his importunate guest believe that she has left home for a while. Archibald, who just preached against a crime story writer called Chapel and who is nervous because a killer roams the neighboring streets, gets suspicious when Irwin babbles vague answers to his questions about Margaret's absence. Jumping to conclusions, he is persuaded that Irwin has murdered his wife and informs the police. Now, it happens that Felix Chapel and Irwin Molyneux are the same person. Unfortunate Irwin finds himself accused of poisoning his wife, just like in one of his detective stories...

In Victorian London, the botanist Irwin Molyneux and his wife Margaret Molyneux are bankrupted but still keeping the appearance due to the successful crime novels written by Irwin under the pseudonym of Felix Chapel. Their cook has just left the family, when Irwin's snoopy and hypocrite cousin Archibald Soper that is in campaign against the police stories of Felix Chapel invites himself to have dinner in Irwin's house. Margaret decides to keep the farce of their social position secretly cooking the dinner, while the clumsy Irwin justifies her absence telling the bishop Soper that she had just traveled to the country to meet some friends. However Soper suspects of Irwin and calls the Scotland Yard, assuming that his cousin had poisoned his wife. Irwin and Margaret decide to hide the truth to avoid an exposition of their financial situation, moving to a low-budget hotel in the Chinese neighborhood, getting into trouble.

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin -- an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 23 April, 2010.

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