97 minutes
11/2/1950
Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
Gérard Gervais
as Antoine Letourneur, the little telegraph operator
Eva Simonet
as Amélie
Olivier Hussenot
as The police commissioner
Christian Fourcade
as A little boy
Henri Crémieux
as School's director
Jacques Tarride
as Mr. Grandjean
Germaine Michel
as The flowergirl
Henri Marchand
as Joseph, the school janitor
Flore Falvey
as Harmonica Player, Theme Music
Lucien Arnaud
Léon Bary
Denise Berley
Jean Berton
as Edouard
Léon Berton
as The priest
Paul Bisciglia
as Young postman
Jacqueline Carlier
as Arthur's mother
Claudy Chapeland
as Arthur
René-Jean Chauffard
as The post office clerk
Jean Clarieux
as The fire captain
André Darnay
as Lespinois, postmaster
Gérard Darrieu
as Young flirty
Guy Derlan
Pierre Ferval
Émile Genevois
as The concierge
Madeleine Gérôme
as Mrs. Grandjean
René Hell
as The postman
Suzie Jaspard
Nina Lazareff
Marcel Loche
as The butcher
Yette Lucas
as The woman with the flower hat
Mag-Avril
as A gossip
Franck Maurice
Henri Maïk
Marthe Mercadier
as A passerby
Albert Michel
as The cafe owner
Frédérique Nadar
Bernard Plumet
as A little boy
Jacques Provins
as A police officer
Yves Robert
as Sergeant Gaston Chauvin
Raymond Soukoff
as Drouin, the trucker