The Most Wanted Man
Synopsis
Joe Calvert (Fernandel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clothes to kids, his boss is adamant against his wearing glasses as cowboys and glasses don't go together. After a series of near-blind misadventures, Joe is fired. Dejected, he goes to the movies and seats himself next to a dangerous gangster and, when he leaves, takes the man's raincoat. In the subway, on a crowded train, he removes a heavy object from coat pocket. It's a gun and the passengers are in a panic and Joe is arrested, and the police announce they have captured Public Enemy No. 1. The leader's mob, unaware that it isn't their boss the police have, plan an escape, with most of the plans made by gun moll Lola (Zsa Zsa Gabor.) Soon, Joe finds both the police and the gangsters after him.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (30)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Cité Films, Cocinor
- Foreign production company : PEG Produzione
- Associate producer : Fides
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Cocinor
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Bar
- Screenwriters : Michel Audiard, Jean Manse
- Dialogue Writer : Michel Audiard
- Director of Photography : Armand Thirard
- Music Composers : Raymond Legrand, Nino Rota
- Assistant Director : Marcel Camus
- Editor : Christian Gaudin
- Sound Recordist : William-Robert Sivel
- Costume designer : Rosine Delamare
- Author of original work : Max Favalelli
- Voice : Jacqueline Porel, Raymond Destac, Georges Chamarat, Pierre Dux, Jacques Dynam, Jean Clarieux
- Sound Assistant : Arthur Van Der Meeren
- Assistant Operators : Jean Dicop, Robert Florent
- Camera Operator : Louis Née
- Production Manager : Walter Rupp
- Assistant editor : Jacqueline Brachet
- Continuity supervisor : Ginette Diamant-Berger
- Production Designer : Robert Giordani
- Still Photographer : Gaston Thonnart
- Location Manager : Louis Manella
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Italy)
- Production year : 1953
- French release : 06/01/1954
- Runtime : 1 h 45 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 13354
- Visa issue date : 27/10/1953
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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