Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
Fernandel
as Emile Boulard
Alexandre Rignault
as Ladislas Stany
Noëlle Norman
as Suzanne Boulard
Félix Oudart
as Romi, the director
Bernard Lajarrige
as Daniel Cormier
Roland Armontel
as Dibier
Jacqueline Dor
as Martine Boulard
Madeleine Lambert
as Madame Cormier
Jean Hébey
as The notary's clerk
Line Dariel
as Madame Zulma
Missia
as The singer
Henri Coutet
as The actor
