Un homme en or

Papon, a brave civil servant learns one day that his wife Jeannette, whom he adores, is cheating on him. He pretends to ignore everything and goes into business. Papon becomes very rich and thinks in this way of winning back Jeannette.

A fable on the well-known "money can't buy happiness " proverb ,for the denouement shows that it's not by becoming a millionaire that he will find back his beloved wife ; the title " a man of gold" is no misnomer : Harry Baur,the legendary actor, portrays a good man ,with a beautiful mind who understands that his younger wife cheats on him with a more handsome man, but in the end ,he will teach the greenhorn a lesson or two ,whithout holding him any grudge .

The rise of the modest civil servant whose business in chocolate trade makes him almost overnight a tycoon is not very convincing ;thus the best scene may be the moment when the businessman makes all his telephones ring by pressing a button before his impressed wife .