The Man from Nowhere

88 mins
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.

Pierre Blanchar

Mathias Pascal / Adrien Meis

Isa Miranda

Louise Paleari

Robert Le Vigan

Le comte Papiano

Ginette Leclerc

Romilda Pescatore

Catherine Fonteney

Delphine Pescatore

Charlotte Barbier-Krauss

Angelica Fede Pascal

Margo Lion

Mlle Caporale

Sinoël

Henri Paleari

Maximilienne

La tante Scholastique

Pierre Palau

Le chevalier Titus

Pierre Alcover

Malagna, l'ancien prétendant et notaire de Madame Pascal

Léonce Corne

l'hôtelier du Luxor

Louis Daquin

le concierge de l'hôtel

Gaston Dupray

le directeur du journal

René Génin

l'ivrogne

Jean Hébey

Pomino, le fils du maire, employé de l'état civil, qui épousera Romilda en secondes noces

Robert Moor

Le fossoyeur

Marcel Vallée

le maire, père de Pomino

Charles Granval

Ottavio Meis, un homme qui se croit le cousin de Mathias

Yvonne Yma

Adèle Meis, sa femme

Paquita Claude

Pepita, une jeune pensionnaire

Georges Douking

le domestique simplet de la pension Paleari

Enrico Glori

le coiffeur

Henri Giquel

le docteur Basile, un pensionnaire

Dax Berthy

le curé

Charles Léger

le bibliothécaire à la retraite

Louis Daquin

(non crédité)

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