''Chéri-Bibi'' is a French

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which premiered on the ORTF 1 channel between 20 December 1974 and 18 February 1975. The programme was based on the series of four

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. Previous adaptations of the stories include '' The Phantom of Paris'' (1931), '' Chéri-Bibi'' (1938) and '' Chéri-Bibi'' (1955). Soister & Nicolella p.123

Synopsis

Chéri-Bibi is wrongly sentenced for a crime he did not commit and sent to serve in a

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. He leads a mutiny amongst his fellow prisoners and seizes the ship carrying there. He changes place with the dead Marquis du Touchais and travels back to France and assumes his identity. He lives a happy life with Cécily, the neglected with of the Marquis, until discovering that it was the Marquis who really committed the crime he was tried for and the police are now on his case.

Cast

* Hervé Sand as Chéri-Bibi *

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as La ficelle *

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as Cécily *

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as Le Kanak * Marguerite Cassan as Soeur Sainte-Marie des Anges * Pierre Hatet as Pont Marie * Malka Ribowska as La Comtesse *

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as Le commandant *

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as Mme Regime * Georges Montillier as Maître Regime *

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as Petit Bon Dieu * Marcel Champel as Gueule de Bois * Jean Mauvais as Le Rouquin *

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as Le Coryphée * Muse Dalbray as Reine * Pierre Filou as Le domestique * Jean De Beaumont as L'inspecteur *

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as Baron Proscoff

References

Bibliography

* Jélot-Blanc, Jean-Jacques.''Télé feuilletons''. Editions Ramsay, 1993. * Soister, John T. & Nicolella, Henry. ''Down from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s''. McFarland, 2016.

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0166908 1974 French television series debuts 1975 French television series endings 1970s crime television series French-language television shows Adaptations of works by Gaston Leroux