Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
as Aline
as Le majordome
as Mathieu les grands pieds
as Giglio
as Anny Fling
as Le chapelain
as Cunégonde von Kronberg Meinscnichtsgonfried
as Giuseppe
as Anne
as Le comte d'Etioles
as Valentine d'Etioles
as L'envoyé de l'empereur
as Le capitaine des gardes
as Carmen Esmeralda Dulcinée de la Yotta
as Lucrezia
as Kaou-Min-Quang
as Leïla de Timboli
as Cunégonde von Kronberg Meinsnichtgonfried
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as Elvira Del Mare (uncredited)
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as (uncredited)
as Le comte de Lurdes (uncredited)
as Fatma (uncredited)
as Giuseppe (uncredited)
as La nourrice de Barbe-Bleue (uncredited)
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