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The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis.

A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.

The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young Suzie Darvel, who has opted for a career as an opera singer. Having a great knowledge of music himself, the navy officer, who finds the girl’s voice quite interesting, writes her a melody, making it a gift to her. That same day, he receives orders to set sail, putting an end to the beautiful love story which had just begun. Three years later, junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil returns to Paris. While attending a performance of Carmen, he recognizes the interpreter of the Bizet character as his lovely neighbor from the past. Jacques Mareuil falls in love with the great singer and wants to marry her. His father is however categorically opposed to the decision, and with the aid of one his colleagues at the Naval Department, he obtains an immediate departure to Indochina for Jacques.

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a woman sits on it.

Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters, back from winter sports.

The stations of Christ's life are segmented into a series of performative tableaux.

Leonce Perret brings home a present for wife Suzanne Grandais. It turns out to be point guards for hat pins. Hat pins with such guards have been outlawed. She is disappointed and refuses to use them. When Leonce seem to get a pin prick in her eye, she is upset. When she discovers he is faking, she decides on her own revenge.

The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…

A young shepherd and servant girl are separated when she is sold into slavery and taken to Alexandria. Far from home, she struggles with the loss of her beloved as fate brings their paths together once again.

One of the longest films ever made

Foezel, a dim-witted police officer, is persuaded to loan his trousers to an actor who is playing a cop in a movie.

A boy steps on the hose a gardener is using to water his garden. The gardener, surprised to see the jet stop, examines the nozzle; at that moment the boy lifts his foot; the jet starts up again and the gardener gets water in the face; furious, he runs after the boy and gives him a beating.

Léonce Perret's film about a musician's loves and heartaches: An aging violinist is secretly in love with his young student. Will music be enough of a comfort to him as she gets married?

The son of Emperor Nero's poisoner drinks the fatal potion prepared by his mother.

Lucien Bataille finds himself hired as a secretary to an elderly man. His principal duty is to make sure that the man's niece, Berthe Dagmar, doesn't see the young man she's interested in. No problem! Bataille finds himself assigned a spirited horse when called on to accompany the young lady in her equestrian exercises.

She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different, meet by chance on a liner and gradually realize that they complement each other harmoniously.