Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boudu Saved from Drowning French Boudu sauv des eaux , Boudu saved from the waters is a 1932 French film directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the films screenplay, from the play by Ren Fauchois. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu.

Bourgeois Parisian, Latin Quarter bookseller, Edouard Lestingois, Charles Granval, rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the river Seine, from the Pont des Arts. Boudu is brought into Lestingois household. The family adopts the man and dedicates itself to reforming him into a proper middle class person. Boudu Michel Simon shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound manners of his hosts and seduces not only the housemaid but also Madame Lestingois herself. Gradually Boudu is tamed, shaved and given a haircut, and put in a suit. Then he wins a large sum of money on the lottery, and is guided into marrying the housemaid. Finally however, at the wedding scene, Boudu capsizes a rowing boat and floats away from the wedding party, and back to his old vagrancy, a free spirit once more.The film was remade in 1986 for an American audience as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Mazursky. Another remake, Boudu, was released in 2005. Grard Jugnot directed, from a screenplay by Philippe LopesCurval. It starred Grard Depardieu as Boudu. ........

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