L'homme à l'imperméable

1957
1h 46m

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In the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrives after a crime. Observed by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his rai... Read allIn the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrives after a crime. Observed by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murdere... Read allIn the absence of his wife, a clarinet player is induced by a friend to meet a call girl, but arrives after a crime. Observed by some people leaving the scene of the crime covered by his raincoat, he became the only suspect for the police. His only hope is to discover the murderer before is name is mentioned publicly, especially in front of his wife.

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Awards
- 1 nomination total

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Fernandel

Albert Constantin

Jacques Duby

Maurice Langlois

Jean Rigaux

Émile Blondeau

Judith Magre

Éva

Pierre Spiers

Le chef d'orchestre

John McGiver

O'Brien

Armande Navarre

Esher

Raoul Marco

Le régisseur

Gaston Rey

Le ténor

Germain Francini

Julien Bertheau

Le metteur en scène
(as Julien Bertheau de la Comédie Française)

Rob Murray

Albert Dinan

Le peintre

Alfred Goulin

L'inspecteur

Édith Georges

Nelly

Jean Laugier

Paul Demange

L'auteur

Jean-Louis Le Goff

L'agent de police
(as Le Goff de la Comédie Française)

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- Julien Duvivier
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dbdumonteil

Faux pas

Coming after his awesome film noir "voici le temps des assassins" the same year,everything Duvivier would produce afterward was bound to be a let -down :such was the case for "l'homme à l'imperméable" which fluctuates between comedy and drama .

Comedy because of Fernandel's personality:it's hard to take his character seriously (a character he had often played in the past:the less-than-handsome guy who falls for a gorgeous woman).

Drama because it's a Hadley Chase novel ;and Fernandel ,who is an ideal Pagnol actor,is definitely not a film noir hero.

It's pussyfooting all the way.While it's entertaining,it cannot be looked upon as an achievement for the highly talented Duvivier.

5brogmiller

A hotchpotch

One wonders what James Hadley Chase thought of this adaptation of 'Tiger by the Tail' directed by Julien Duvivier. The respectable banker in the book has here become a lovable, bumbling clarinettist in what is essentially a star vehicle for the marvellous Fernandel but even he cannot keep this afloat. John McGiver in this his first film steals his scenes as a dodgy art dealer and Bernard Blier has a thankless part as a nosey neighbour who discovers that curiosity kills the cat. This is a film that cannot make up its mind whether to be a comedy thriller or film noir and succeeds as neither. One of Duvivier's duds.

6gridoon2025

Cynical black comedy

I've seen about six or seven Julien Duvivier films so far, and "The Man In The Raincoat" is easily the weakest of them; not that it's bad, mind you, but it moves along sluggishly (I had to watch it in two parts), goes on too long, and by the end turns into a muddled corpse fest. Fernandel has some funny moments, but not enough for 107 minutes of duration. **1/2 out of 4.

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American theater and TV actor John McGiver was brought to Paris for the location shooting of Billy Wilder's "Love In The Afternoon" from August through December 1956. While he was there he was cast in the role of the shady American art dealer in "The Man In The Raincoat", though his French dialogue was dubbed by another actor. "The Man In The Raincoat" started shooting in October and was released in France February 1957, whereas "Love In The Afternoon", which had started filming earlier, was not released until June of that year.