Merlusse
1935 · 72 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 255 VOTES · DIR. Marcel Pagnol
Overview
"Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On Christmas eve, when some twenty of the students—orphans, foreigners or just plain "unwanteds"—had to remain in the boarding school, Merlusse is placed in charge. His glass eye glares at them stonily, his good one with no less severity. He sets them to tasks, marches like a proctor up and down the aisles, exacts to the utmost the last measure of discipline. But when the youngsters awake in the morning, there are toys by each bed in the dormitory and M. Blanchard, no longer to be called Merlusse, is exposed for the softhearted fraud he is.
Dialogue Timeline — 929 lines
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00:00:01 The film you are about to see was made many years ago.
00:05:08 You want to get out?
00:07:19 Yes.
00:10:04 Digne
00:11:51 All he ever does is moan.
00:13:49 I've done prep for the weak pupils
00:15:54 Well, my dad is a king.
00:17:33 Pic, come here.
00:19:38 - Got them here? - The latest one.
00:23:34 Why "Merlusse"?
00:25:01 Are you going out tonight?
00:28:12 I'm going out, sir.
00:33:28 But you're here. Hostages.
00:35:46 I'm pleased to be able to tell you that I'll be on dormitory duty.
00:40:11 Mine doesn't do that!
00:43:12 No, at nine.
00:46:28 will stand in the corner all night.
00:50:41 I thought it was Father Christmas.
00:52:49 The die is cast.
00:54:22 Rare means you don't see many.
00:58:13 the importance, nay, the enormity of your gesture.
00:59:54 They say I'm a brute but I've never hit a pupil.
01:01:44 which saddens me.
01:03:47 Subtitling: CMC - Paris