Chéri-Bibi is a 1938 French drama film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Marcel Dalio. It was based on the Chéri-Bibi series of novels by Gaston Leroux. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. The character had previously appeared in the 1931 American film The Phantom of Paris and would return in a 1955 French film Chéri-Bibi and a 1974 television series of the same title.
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Synopsis
Chéri-Bibi is sentenced to serve time in penal colony in South America, but plots a mutiny and an escape with his fellow prisoners.
Cast
Pierre Fresnay as Francis dit Chéri-Bibi
Jean-Pierre Aumont as Raoul Palas
Marcel Dalio as Le donneur
Suzet Maïs as Ginette
Thomy Bourdelle as Fric-Frac
Lucien Dalsace as Le vieux Georges
René Navarre as Monsieur Charles
Georges Péclet as Duroc
Colette Darfeuil as Viviane
Raymond Aimos as La Ficelle
Georges Fels as Théo
Maurice Humbert as Le sourd-muet
Victor Vina as Coranti
Liliane Lesaffre as Mademoiselle Roger
Robert Ozanne as Le Lorrain
Jean Marconi as Freddy
Adolf E. Licho as Boris
Max Doria as Émile
Alex Potino as Blanchette
Gérard Landry as Gérard