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.
00:05:06 I want to get out.
00:07:15 And that's a lot worse.
00:09:53 who both qualify for promotion
00:11:37 He apologised to him and asked me to let it drop.
00:13:30 But, Blanchard, it's the custom here.
00:15:33 - Here, keep it. - Thanks.
00:17:08 Only one wife, but she drives him mad!
00:19:13 There, see, you weren't called!
00:21:55 - Your name? - Catusse.
00:24:32 That's just an old story.
00:26:00 If he comes to my country I'll skewer him.
00:32:04 Who's taking it?
00:34:58 we have to share the duties.
00:39:17 Well, boys
00:41:00 I know what they are now.
00:45:33 and we're stuck here.
00:49:03 She must have told him to.
00:51:24 He gave us all he could.
00:53:28 Maybe that's too nice.
00:56:14 - I hope he doesn't shout at us. - That'd take the biscuit!
00:58:45 but he doesn't even buy a stamp
01:00:27 I wouldn't sleep at night.
01:02:09 to our pupil the king-to-be!