- Country: N/A
- Genres: Comedy
- Release: 1951-12-26
- Director: Émile Couzinet
- Writers: Émile Couzinet , Yves Mirande
- Language: French
- Stars: Frédéric Duvallès , Armand Bernard , Irène de Trebert , Daniel Sorano , Jean Tissier , Jacques Torrens , Claire Maurier , Anny Flore , Georgette Tissier , Huguette Palot
- Runtime: 87 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Ce coquin d'Anatole , Ce coquin d'Anatole (France, French Republic) , This Rascal of Anatole (United States of America)
- Plot: Emile Couzinet provided the French with their guiltiest pleasures ; today his movies are dismissed as pieces of junk by all the official critics, but retain a bizarre cult among certain cinebuffs .Plot : a butcher's bossy overpossessive widow does not want her son, a virgin lad, to become an architect and makes him work in the store with Anatole ,the butcher boy;the son is actually a rich heir ,his late father left him 27 million (and a half ) francs but the tight-fisted mom has always concealed this secret from his clueless son.One find day , a phone call splits the beans ,and now, fortune-hunter ladies,like Monroe and Russell, are eager for the young man's heart (and dough); in order to seduce a gorgeous girl, Anatole (check the title = Anatole,you rascal!" ) passes himself off as the matron' s son .Both boys enjoy a bath in a tub ,a luxury at the time ,but one of their belles 's old beau (Jean Tissier ,the only good actor of the cast ,who sometimes got lost in Couzinet's stuff)is to be reckoned with ..From the so-called dying brother-in-law to the naive young man who sows his wild oats ,including even ,towards the ending ,a "serious " melodramatic scene in which the bad gal tells the stripling about her racy past ,this can only be appreciated as a guilty pleasure ;besides ,not suitable for veggies.
- IMDB:tt0154296
Ce coquin d’Anatole Cast · · · ALL
Émile Couzinet
Director
Frédéric Duvallès
Me Bonneteau
Armand Bernard
Me Tedet
Daniel Sorano
Anatole
Jean Tissier
Lucien
Jacques Torrens
Paul Paufilat
Claire Maurier
Germaine de la Boëtie
Milly Mathis
Ms. Paufilat
Gaston Modot
(uncredited)
Robert Seller
(uncredited)