''The Crime of Bouif'' (French: ''Le crime du Bouif'') is a 1922 French silent

comedy Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term o ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

, directed by

Henri Pouctal Henri Pouctal (21 October 1860 – 2 February 1922) was an early French silent film director and actor best known for his silent films of the 1910s, notably ''Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ...

, and starring

Félicien Tramel Félicien Tramel, often known simply as Tramel, (1880–1948) was a French film actor.Goble p.113 Selected filmography * '' The Crystal Submarine'' (1927) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1933) * '' The Mondesir Heir'' (1940) * ''The Inevitable Mo ...

Henri Gouget Henri Gouget was a French film actor.Waldman p.18 He appeared in more than sixty films during the silent era. Selected filmography * '' L'Enfant prodigue'' (1907) * ''The Gaieties of the Squadron'' (1913) * '' Jean la Poudre'' (1913) * ''The Syst ...

and

Thérèse Kolb Thérèse Kolb (1856–1935) was a French stage and film actress.Goble p.165 Selected filmography * '' In Old Alsace'' (1920) * '' Blanchette'' (1921) * '' The Crime of Bouif'' (1922) * ''Jack'' (1925) * ''Yasmina'' (1927) * '' The Ladies in the ...

. It is an adaptation of the 1921 play of the same title by

André Mouëzy-Éon André Mouëzy-Éon (9 June 1880 – 23 October 1967) was a French dramatist, author of comedies, librettist, screenwriter and Dialogue, dialoguist. Biography André Mouëzy-Éon begins his career by writing short plays for the Théâtre de Cl ...

and

Georges de La Fouchardière Georges Alphonse de La Fouchardière (February 1874 - 10 February 1946) was a French writer and journalist. He wrote for the Canard enchaîné (creator of the " Chronique du Bouif"), at ''L'Œuvre'', as well as being the author of several liter ...

which Tramel had appeared in.Goble p.115 It was subsequently remade as a 1933 sound film '' The Crime of Bouif'' (1933), with Tramel again reprising the title role.

Cast

as Bicard dit Le Bouif *

as Goldmayer * Paul Gerbault as Docteur Boudon *

as Madame Bicard * Henriette Delannoy as Madame Hexam *

Pierre Labry Pierre Labry (1885–1948) was a French stage and film actor.Capua p.122 He was active in the French film industry between 1920 and 1948, appearing in more than a hundred films. Selected filmography * ''La croisade'' (1920) * ''Gigolette'' (1921 ...

as Hexam *

Charles Lamy Charles Lamy or M. Lamy (28 August 1857 – 15 June 1940) was the stage name of the French actor Charles Castarède.Martin, p. 214 Life and career Lamy was born in Lyon to a theatrical family. His younger brother Maurice became an actor. He bega ...

as Chennevert * Jeanne Saint-Bonnet as Estelle Bicard

References

Bibliography

* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Rège, Philippe. ''Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1''. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

* 1922 films French silent feature films 1920s French-language films Films directed by Henri Pouctal French black-and-white films 1920s French films French comedy films 1922 comedy films French films based on plays {{1920s-France-film-stub