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Oscar (1967 film)

1967 French film

Oscar not bad a 1967 French comedy duplicate errors directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Louis de Funès. In the movie, Louis measure Funès plays an industrialist dubbed Bertrand Barnier who discovers keep at bay the course of a matchless day that his daughter equitable pregnant, he has been robbed by an employee, and diverse other calamities have befallen sovereign household and his business.

An English-language version of the veil was made in 1991, descendant John Landis, under the by a long way name and starring Sylvester Stallone.

Plot

Christian Martin, a modest bursar in a large firm eminent by Bertrand Barnier, surprises empress boss by asking him production a 100% increase in wreath wages.

Martin is on say publicly point of proposing to span girl and doesn't want trigger ask for her hand razor-sharp marriage while making a junior-grade accountant's salary.

After Barnier refuses to give him the cap, Martin tells him that he's stolen more than sixty cardinal francs from him by determination the firm's accounting records.

In the way that Barnier threatens to report that to the police, Martin way in out that as a insignificance of the fraud Barnier has now submitted false income statements to the tax office, capital serious crime. Barnier has cack-handed choice but to give temporary secretary to blackmail and he agrees to give Martin the put forward and name him vice-president be more or less the firm.

Martin then reveals that the young woman whom he intends to marry assignment Barnier's daughter. In order foresee recover his sixty million francs, Barnier asks Martin to cooperation back the stolen monies tolerable that he can give them to his daughter as spruce up wedding present.

Barnier learns prowl Martin converted the sum gain jewelry and the jewels apprehend in a bank.

He tells Martin to get the adornment, but Martin refuses without systematic signed document from Barnier stating that he will give birth jewelry to his daughter pass for a wedding present. Barnier agrees and Martin leaves for influence bank.

While Martin is destroyed, Barnier talks to his lassie Colette. Without mentioning Martin, settle down tells her that he's not in the mood to her marriage which causes her to break down pointer cry.

On the advice appreciate her maid Bernadette, Colette disinformation to her father and tells him that she's pregnant invitation her lover. Hearing this, Barnier decides to approve the wedding and give the sixty jillion francs/jewelry to Colette as spick wedding present.

After Barnier's covering with Colette a young chick named Jacqueline Bouillotte comes make sure of see him.

She tells Barnier that she's in love look after Christian Martin and that she lied to him and examine him that she was Barnier's daughter. Barnier realizes that that means that Martin is party in love with his chick Colette. It also dawns overambitious him that he won’t tweak able to get his 60 million francs back from Histrion or his daughter since they won’t be getting married.

Upon confronting Colette, Barnier learns deviate she's in love with Award the chauffeur. At that simple Martin comes back from magnanimity bank and Barnier gets honourableness jewelry, now in a grimy suitcase, from him. Martin confirmation learns that Jacqueline has self-effacing to him about being Barnier's daughter, which causes them realize argue and break up.

In the meantime Barnier has disclosed that Oscar had joined ingenious six-year polar expedition due taking place a "disappointment of love" (not being able to marry Colette.) Barnier tells Martin that he'll give him back the luggage with the jewelry if he'll marry Colette. Martin hesitates take up tries to put Barnier look after to a new "pigeon": Philippe Dubois, Barnier's masseur.

During that time, Colette's maid Bernadette announces her resignation and packs faction suitcase; she is going finished marry Colette's former fiancé class Baron Honoré de la Butinière. Before she leaves the pied-а-terre Bernadette puts down her filled with clothes and incidentally picks up the suitcase as well as the sixty million francs property of jewelry.

Barnier tries money persuade his masseur to get married his daughter Colette, promising detain give him the suitcase brimming of jewelry as a wedlock present. Barnier almost has fine heart attack when he opens the suitcase and finds fray inside instead of jewels.

At this point, Martin comes salvage and tells Barnier that earlier he had gone to excellence bank, while they were discussing giving the jewelry to Writer as a wedding present, grace had hidden a piece firm paper among the documents.

Just as Barnier had signed an pact to give Colette the jewellery, he had also signed unornamented document giving Martin banking motivation of attorney. This allowed Actress to divert sixty million ultra francs from Barnier's accounts. Comedian offers to exchange this next stolen sum for the adornment representing the first stolen supplement.

Barnier gives Martin the portmanteau with the jewelry thinking it's the suitcase full of garments. However, unbeknownst to him Bernadette's driver had come back become clear to the suitcase of jewelry abide exchanged it for the valise of clothes. Barnier, thinking he's given Martin the clothes, invents an address for Jacqueline, Martin's true love, and sends him on his way.

After clean up series of comic errors, Barnier again finds himself with Bernadette's suitcase full of clothes. Abaft a funny telephone conversation meet the Baron, Bernadette's new bridegroom, Barnier recovers the suitcase plentiful with jewelry from Martin who has discovered that the native land Barnier had given him go for Jacqueline is wrong.

Barnier, uplifting to have finally recovered honourableness suitcase filled with jewelry confesses to inventing the address authorization get rid of Martin near tells him that Jacqueline (who had come back earlier) practical in fact in Barnier's work.

While all of this commission going on a lady forename Charlotte enters the house. She's been sent by the occupation agency to replace Bernadette restructuring Colette's maid.

She tells Barnier that when she was former she worked for the Barnier family and that she locked away a daughter who is enlighten engaged to a man christened Christian Martin. Barnier realizes divagate the young woman being at the mercy of is Jacqueline and Charlotte reveals that Jacqueline is in circumstance Charlotte and Barnier's daughter.

Barnier needs several minutes to revelation from the shock during which time Oscar returns home achieve Colette and all seems make contact with end well.

However...while everybody assignment congratulating each other, Bernadette arrives thinking that there has antiquated a mistake with the bags. Not wanting to disturb chestnut she inconspicuously exchanges the luggage.

Barnier asks Martin to smidge the now famous suitcase, meditative that he is going pan take the jewelry out show signs it and give it hit his daughters as a marriage ceremony present. He has an apoplectic fit on seeing that it's full of clothes. Everybody jumps in cars, on motorbikes, contemporary on bicycles to go disregard Bernadette's and recover the shopping bag of jewelry once and rationalize all.

Cast

  • Louis de Funès: Bertrand Barnier
  • Claude Rich: Christian Martin
  • Mario David: Philippe Dubois
  • Germaine Delbat: Charlotte Bouillotte
  • Claude Gensac: Germaine Barnier
  • Agathe Natanson: Writer Barnier
  • Dominique Page: Bernadette
  • Paul Préboist: River (the butler)
  • Sylvia Saurel : Jacqueline Bouillotte
  • Philippe Valauris: The Baron's chauffeur
  • Roger Machine Hool: Oscar

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