The Wild Oat

IMDb 6.9 1953 • 103 min • Comedy

Director

Henri Verneuil

Country

FR

Plot Summary

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.

Top Cast

Fernandel
Fernandel Félicien Hébrard, Valorgue baker
Georges Chamarat
Georges Chamarat Mr. Aussel, postmaster
Henri Vilbert
Henri Vilbert Mayor of Valorgue
Edmond Ardisson
Edmond Ardisson Évariste, postman
Leda Gloria
Leda Gloria Mrs. widow Zanetti, grocer and mother of Françoise