- Country: France
- Genres: Comedy
- Release: 1944-12-06
- Director: Jacques Houssin
- Writers: Frédéric Boutet , Grégoire Chanas
- Language: French
- Stars: Saturnin Fabre , Julien Carette , Georges Rollin , Jean Tissier , Marcelle Géniat , Michèle Gérard , Gabrielle Fontan , Robert Dhéry , Alice Tissot , Georgette Tissier
- Runtime: 100 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: The White Blackbird , Le merle blanc (France, French Republic) , Le merle blanc
- Plot: Monsieur Leroy (Saturnin Fabre) is a wealthy businessman who made his fortune in shoe polish :"l'éclat ,c'est moi" (=shine is mine) ;his son ,Jules (Jean Tissier),in a grown up kid, a good for nothing whose main activity is to collect the shoes.One of the workers ,Hyacinthe Camusset (Carette), is fired,but much to the horror of the ruthless boss , he is actually the heir , the real owner of the shoe polish plant ; he won't survive this fatal discovery .Jules becomes the boss and tries to do away with Camusset : he gives him a promotion , nominates him to the post of laboratory manager ,for there are lots of explosions there ; in desperation ,he tries to marry him to his sister ,but ,alas ,she's in love with an engineer ....Riotously funny , mainly in its first part, "le merle blanc" is good fun ; nothing heady ,nothing intellectual,but lines which hit home ,a fabulous threesome :Fabre/Tissier /Carette ,and inventive situations ,even including a manor and its family ghost.
- IMDB:tt0195059
The White Blackbird Cast · · · ALL
Jacques Houssin
Director
Saturnin Fabre
Jules Leroy
Julien Carette
Hyacinthe Camusset
Georges Rollin
Jean Bernon
Jean Tissier
Achille Leroy
Marcelle Géniat
Noémie
Gabrielle Fontan
The landlady
Robert Dhéry
Viscount de Mazers
Alice Tissot
Madame Jules Leroy
Guy Sloux
Monsieur Bien
Maxime Fabert
Monsieur Pénitent
Paul Ollivier
Monsieur Farré
Georges Bever
Achilles' servant
Max Dalban
Georges Gosset
Léon Larive
Maurice Marceau