Hoboes in Paradise (1945)

7.5/10 • 85 min • Comedy

Overview

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.

Cast

Raimu

Boule

Fernandel

Pons

Armand Bernard

Mortician

André Alerme

Saint-Pierre

Félix Oudart

Village policeman

Marcel Maupi

Hairdresser

Piéral

Little devil

Michèle Philippe

Lynda

Edmond Beauchamp

Gaston Orbal

Erno Crisa

Claude Joseph

Jacques Beauvais

Gaby André

Marie

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