♦ Synopsis :

Wanting to ensure the triumph of the medicine which it makes pass before the interest of the patients, Doctor Knock arrives at Saint-Maurice to succeed Doctor Parpalaid whose customers are rare. The health of the country is excellent. Realizing that it was deceived by its predecessor, but far from discouraging themselves, Knock makes understand with each patient who presses himself with his free consultations, that any bearing good is a patient who is unaware of himself. The result is not made wait. All the village is found with the bed, distressed. The hotel is transformed into private clinic and even Parpalaid returned temporarily, sets out again thrown into a panic of its state, after a consultation of the doctor.

♦ Specification sheet :

Title : Knock
Realization : Guy Lefranc
Artistic director : Louis Jouvet
Scenario : According to the play of Jules Romains
Adaptation : Georges Neveux
Dialogue : Jules Romains
Production assistants : Maurice Delbez, Michel Mombailly
Images : Claude Renoir, Andréas Wending, Roger Tellier
Operator : Gilbert Chain
Photographer of tray : Roger Corbeau
Music : Paul Misraki
Decorations : Robert Clavel, Jacques Douy, Jacques d'Ovidio
Sound : Jean Rieul
Suits : Rosine Delamare
Make-up : Serge Gleboff, Jacqueline Coulant
Editing : Louisette Hautecoeur, Denise Natot
Script-girl : Nicole Benard
Manager : Jean Mottet
Film 35mm, black and white
Shooting from November 21st, 1950 till January 9th, 1951 in the studios of Billancourt and the outside in Neauphle-le-Château
Production : Jacques Roitfeld (France)
Directorr of production : Léon Canel
Distribution : Sirius
First presentation the 21/03/1951
Duration : 98mn
Genre : Comedy

♦ Distribution :

Louis Jouvet : Doctor Knock
Jean Brochard : Doctor Parpalaid
Pierre Renoir : The pharmacist Mousquet
Pierre Bertin : The primary school teacher Bernard
Marguerite Pierry : Mme Pons, the lady her in purple
Jean Carmet : The first lad
Yves Deniaud : The town crier
Mireille Perrey : Mme Rémy
Jane Marken : Mme Parpalaid
Geneviève Morel : The lady in black
Bernadette Lange : Mariette
André Dalibert : The second lad
Pierre Duncan : The deliverer
Paul Faivre : The mayor Michalon
Jean Sylvain : A driver (under the name of "Sylvain")
Madeleine Barbulee : A nurse
Louis de Funès : The patient who lost 100 grams
Jacques Monod : The first drum, Sir Albos
Claire Olivier : Mme Mousquet
Marius David