Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...
ois film directed by
Denis Héroux
Denis Héroux, (; 15 July 1940 – 10 December 2015) was a Canadian film director and producer.
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was the older brother of prolific Quebec film and television producer Claude Héroux.
Héroux wanted to beco ...
and with a scenario by
Marcel Lefebvre
Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre (29 November 1905 – 25 March 1991) was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dakar, Archbishop of Dakar from 1955 to 1962. He was a major inf ...
with input from Héroux,
Guy Fournier
Guy Fournier, CM (born 23 July 1931 in Waterloo, Quebec) is a Quebec author, playwright, and screenwriter. From 8 September 2005 to 19 September 2006 he was chairman of the board of directors of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Career
Fr ...
Gerald Pratley
Gerald Arthur Pratley (September 3, 1923 – March 14, 2011) was a Canadian film critic and historian. Piers Handling"Gerald Arthur Pratley" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', September 18, 2011. A longtime film critic for the Canadian Broadcasting Cor ...
, ''A Century of Canadian Cinema''. Lynx Images, 2003. . p. 216.
Plot summary
A Quebec comedy about an ordinary man ( Jean-Guy Moreau) and his overly active and imaginative brother-in-law (
Willie Lamothe
Willie Lamothe was the stage name of Joachim Guillaume Lamothe (January 27, 1920 – October 19, 1992), a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec.
) who tells a lie about why he was late coming in to his bank-teller job. One thing leads to another, and confusion and mayhem are unleashed. An early film role for Quebec singing star
Dominique Michel
Dominique Michel, OC, CQ (born ''Aimée Sylvestre''; September 24, 1932 in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec) is a Quebec comedian, actress, singer and artist.
Biography
She began her career in cabarets performing songs written by Raymond Lévesque and subs ...
, who had a hit with the film's title song released as a duet with Lamothe.
Yvan Ducharme
Yvan Ducharme was a québécois actor (24 August 1937, in Rouyn-Noranda – 21 March 2013, in Laval, Quebec).
Biography
Ducharme was first known to the public thanks to his creation of ''Insolences d'un téléphone'' shown during the day in ...
: Yvan
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Willie Lamothe
Willie Lamothe was the stage name of Joachim Guillaume Lamothe (January 27, 1920 – October 19, 1992), a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec.
: Willie Turgeon
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Dominique Michel
Dominique Michel, OC, CQ (born ''Aimée Sylvestre''; September 24, 1932 in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec) is a Quebec comedian, actress, singer and artist.
Biography
She began her career in cabarets performing songs written by Raymond Lévesque and subs ...
Gilles Latulippe
Gilles Latulippe Order of Canada, CM Knight of the National Order of Quebec, CQ (31 August 1937 – 23 September 2014) was a French-speaking Quebecer, Québécois actor, comedian and theatre director and manager. Latulippe was a central figure in ...
Clémence DesRochers Clémence DesRochers OC (born 23 November 1933) is a Canadian actress, humourist, singer, and author.
Life
She was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec on 23 November 1933.
At the age of 17, she went to Montreal where she entered the normal school. She the ...
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André Gagnon
André Gagnon (2 August 1936 – 3 December 2020) was a Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, and actor, known for his fusion of classical and pop styles,Jean-Pierre Thiollet, ''88 notes pour piano solo'', Neva Editions, 2015, p.16 ...
Paolo Noël
Paolo is a masculine given name, the Italian form of the name Paul. It may refer to:
People
Art
* Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-American sculptor
* Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter
* Paolo Antonio Barbieri (1603–1649), Ital ...
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Céline Bernier
Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name version of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly".Claude-Jean Devirieux
* Robert Desroches
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Marcel Fournier
Marcel Fournier, born in 1945 in Plessisville (Quebec) is a Quebec sociologist.
Biography
Born in Plessisville, Marcel Fournier completed his classical course at the before undertaking studies in sociology at the Université de Montréal. He ...
Jacques Morency
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Gilles Proulx
Gilles Proulx (born April 5, 1940) is a Canadian radio and television host in the province of Quebec. His radio career began in 1962, notably working for CHMP-FM and currently for Quebecor and Radio Ville-Marie. A strong Quebec nationalist, known ...