

06/12/1935
"Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On Christmas Eve, when some twenty of the students—orphans, foreigners or just plain "unwanteds"—had to remain in the boarding school, Merlusse is placed in charge. His glass eye glares at them stonily, his good one with no less severity. He sets them to tasks, marches like a proctor up and down the aisles, exacts to the utmost the last measure of discipline. But when the youngsters awake in the morning, there are toys by each bed in the dormitory and M. Blanchard, no longer to be called Merlusse, is exposed for the softhearted fraud he is.

Henri Poupon
as Merlusse

André Pollack
as The Headmaster

Thommeray
as The Dean

André Robert
as The Senior Supervisor

Rellys
as The Porter

Annie Toinon
as Nathalie

Jean Castan
as Galubert

Fernand Bruno
as Catusse

Robert Chaux
as Godard

Le Petit Jacques
as Villepontoux

Le-Van-Kim
as Macaque

John Dubrou
as Pic

d'Armans
as Philippard

Robert Aviérinos
as Lupin

Dernard
as Delacre

Jean Inglesakis
as Molinard

Armando Rossi
as Le concierge
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