Fernandel is a sheep-shearer, a horse decorator, and eventually a hairdresser for ladies; one whose nonsensical names for styles of hairdos and a talent for making women appear youthful earns him a magnificent practice.... and whose extra-curricular attentions to his clientele leave his wife, Arlette Poirier, neglected.
Jean Boyer and Serge Veber adapted this bit of nonsense for the screen, and it gives Fernandel the opportunity to prance around, while a large assortment of beautiful women dance attendance on him. It's a Fernandel vehicle, impure and simple, and quite bizarre as he compares himself to Napoleon and grows increasingly berserk in his amour-propre. Boyer specialized in such popular fluff when he wasn't writing songs for operettas. He died in 1965 at the age of 63.
Jean Boyer and Serge Veber adapted this bit of nonsense for the screen, and it gives Fernandel the opportunity to prance around, while a large assortment of beautiful women dance attendance on him. It's a Fernandel vehicle, impure and simple, and quite bizarre as he compares himself to Napoleon and grows increasingly berserk in his amour-propre. Boyer specialized in such popular fluff when he wasn't writing songs for operettas. He died in 1965 at the age of 63.