No good deed goes unpunished in this raucous comedy. Michel Simon is Boudu, a self-serving bum. When he tries to commit suicide by jumping into the Seine, he issaved by Edouard Lestingois, a middle-class book dealer. Lestingois takes the shaggy tramp into his house hoping to help him, and Boudu returns the favor by both turning his well-ordered home upside down and having affairs with his wife and his maid. Tensions mount as the middle-class man watches the lout succeed. Filmed in 1932 by Jean Renoir, "Boudu Saved from Drowning" (1967) was not released in the U.S. until 1967.
No good deed goes unpunished in this raucous comedy. Michel Simon is Boudu, a self-serving bum. When he tries to commit suicide by jumping into the Seine, he issaved by Edouard Lestingois, a middle-class book dealer. Lestingois takes the shaggy tramp into his house hoping to help him, and Boudu returns the favor by both turning his well-ordered home upside down and having affairs with his wife and his maid. Tensions mount as the middle-class man watches the lout succeed. Filmed in 1932 by Jean Renoir, "Boudu Saved from Drowning" (1967) was not released in the U.S. until 1967.
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