The Man in the Raincoat

The Man in the Raincoat

Directed by	Julien Duvivier
Written by	Julien Duvivier René Barjavel
Based on	'Tiger by the Tail' by James Hadley Chase
Starring	Fernandel Bernard Blier Jacques Duby Jean Rigaux Claude Sylvain
Production companies	Abbey Films Cité Films
Distributed by	Cocinor
Release date	22 February 1957
Running time	108 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

The Man in the Raincoat (French: L'Homme à l'imperméable) is a French-Italian comedy-thriller film directed by Julien Duvivier, scripted by the director and René Barjavel, from the 1954 novel Tiger by the Tail by James Hadley Chase. It was released in 1957^[1] and shown at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival in competition for the Golden Bear. It stars Fernandel, (with whom Duvivier had made two successful Don Camillo films earlier in the 1950s), and Bernard Blier.

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Its raining heavily. My bag is... Ohh! Uncle. Please come in. Actually, Papa just called. He told me that you are going to come. Would you like to have something? Tea or Coffee? Just water. I am the salvation. I kill people. Watching over the sleeping bodies of sinners.. On the terrace of a crowded building.. I do the honour of finishing someone's race.. I am the salvation. I kill people. I think why can't we hear the scream while their struggle.. Appearing like a killer.. Dressed like a murderer.. I strive to search for warm bodies.. I am the salvation. I kill people. Uncle? Are you leaving? Papa will be coming soon! I am not your Uncle. It was raining... My bag was getting wet.. I wanted a shelter.. so.. Ohh! I thought!! I should go now. Wait! This cassette of yours... You left it.. Ohh this! I'm done with this already. Yesterday somebody asked... Who are you? People seemed to ask...where is he these days.. In this world full of questions... I take care that nobody will ask any question.. I am the salvation. I kill people.

Plot

The wife of Albert Constantin goes to visit her uncle, who is sick. Albert, (Fernandel), a clarinet player with the orchestra of the Théâtre du Châtelet finds himself alone for a week. Albert finds it hard to cope, being domestically inept, and his colleague in the orchestra, Émile, (Jean Rigaux), recommends he go to see Éva (Judith Magre). He, himself, sees her from time to time. At first hesitant, Albert goes to see the woman.

So much the worse for Albert. Éva is murdered, while he waits to see her in her living-room. Realising Éva is a prostitute he hurries away, only to read the next day of a murder and reports of a man running away, in a raincoat, from the scene of the crime. He soon finds himself dealing with a blackmailer, a neighbour of the murdered woman, Monsieur Raphaël (Bernard Blier), and professional killers. And so Albert is overtaken by a series of events that plunge him ever deeper into troubles.

Cast

Fernandel as Albert Constantin, clarinetist
Bernard Blier as Monsieur Raphaël
Jacques Duby as Maurice Langlois
Jean Rigaux as Émile Blondeau
Claude Sylvain as Florence
Judith Magre as Éva
John McGiver as O'Brien
Julien Bertheau as the director

References

^ Crowther, Bosley (1958-07-15). "Screen: Grisly Comedy; Man in the Raincoat' Stars Fernandel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-17.

External links

The Man in the Raincoat at IMDb

Films directed by Julien Duvivier

Filmography

The Agony of the Eagles (1922)
The Hurricane on the Mountain (1922)
The Abbot Constantine (1925)
The Red Head (1925)
The Man with the Hispano (1926)
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927)
The Maelstrom of Paris (1928)
The Divine Voyage (1929)
La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin (1930)
David Golder (1931)
Moon Over Morocco (1931)
Here's Berlin (1932)
The Five Accursed Gentlemen (1932)
The Red Head (1932)
A Man's Neck (1933)
The Little King (1933)
Maria Chapdelaine (1934)
Golgotha (1935)
La Bandera (1935)
Le Golem (1936)
They Were Five (1936)
The Man of the Hour (1937)
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Life Dances On (1937)
The Great Waltz (1938)
The End of the Day (1939)
The Phantom Carriage (1939)
Lydia (1941)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
The Heart of a Nation (1943)
Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
The Impostor (1944)
Panique (1946)
Anna Karenina (1948)
Black Jack (1950)
Under the Sky of Paris (1951)
Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
Holiday for Henrietta (1952)
The Return of Don Camillo (1953)
On Trial (1954)
Marianne of My Youth (1955)
Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
The Man in the Raincoat (1957)
Lovers of Paris (1957)
The Female (1959)
Marie-Octobre (1959)
The High Life (1960)
Boulevard (1960)
The Burning Court (1962)
The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
Highway Pick-Up (1963)
Diabolically Yours (1967)

v t e Works by René Barjavel
Novels	Ashes, Ashes (1943) Future Times Three (1944) The Tragic Innocents (1946) Le diable l'emporte (1948) The Ice People (1968) Les Chemins de Katmandou (1969) The Immortals (1973) Les Dames à la licorne (1974) Une rose au paradis (1981) La Tempête (1982) L'Enchanteur (1984)
Screenplays	Women Without Names (1950) Little World of Don Camillo (1952) The Return of Don Camillo (1953) L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard (1954) Don Camillo's Last Round (1955) Goubbiah, mon amour (1956) The Terror with Women (1956) The Case of Doctor Laurent (1957) The Man in the Raincoat (1957) Girls for the Summer (1958) Les Misérables (1958) Toto in Paris (1958) An Angel on Wheels (1959) The High Life (1960) Highway Pickup (1963) The Pleasure Pit (1969)
Adaptations	Le grand secret (1989)

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