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St. Val's Mystery (1945)

St. Val's Mystery poster
Original title
Le Mystère Saint-Val
Directed by
René Le Hénaff
Genre
comedy film, crime film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A comedic mystery follows a bumbling amateur as he stumbles into a puzzling case. Filmed just after World War II, the story mixes laughs with a light crime plot.

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What happens

St. Val's Mystery (original: French: Le Mystère de Saint-Val) is a 1945 French comedy film starring Fernandel directed by René Le Hénaff, Shot during the winter of 1944–1945 in the Boulogne Studios, this was the Fernandel's first film following the liberation of Paris. The film's original release title is Le mystère Saint-Val, and it was released in the United States in 1945 under the English title of St. Val's Mystery. It was then released in Denmark on 23 October 1950 as Det mystiske slot and in Portugal on 1 June 1954 as Fernandel, Polícia Amador. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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