The Wild Oat

1h 43m

6.7

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.

Cast

Félicien Hébrard, Valorgue baker

Georges Chamarat

Mr. Aussel, postmaster

Mayor of Valorgue

Edmond Ardisson

Évariste, postman

Mrs. widow Zanetti, grocer and mother of Françoise

Pierrette Bruno

Françoise Zanetti, daughter of Mrs. Zanetti

Abbot Daniel, village vicar

Madeleine Sylvain

Mrs. Clotilde Hébrard, wife of Félicien

Justin Hébrard, son of Félicien

Noël Courtade, aka 'Courte-cuisse', bicycle salesman

Miss Negret, old maid

Georges Briquet

Antonin, blacksmith

Arnaud, town hall secretary

André Carnège

Gendarme Delcasse

Pierre Vinassac

Angelo Cecchelin

Crew

Writer, Dialogue

Adaptation, Dialogue

Christian Gaudin

Director of Photography

Gérard Ducaux-Rupp

Assistant Director

Lorenzo Pegoraro

Robert Giordani

Production Design

Camera Operator

Jean Castagnier

Assistant Camera

Assistant Camera

Arthur Van der Meeren

Sound Assistant

Sound Assistant

William Robert Sivel

Original Music Composer

Raymond Legrand

Jacques d'Ovidio

Assistant Set Decoration

Gaston Thonnart

Still Photographer

Charles Auvergne

Location Manager

Louis Charpeaux

Property Master

Production Manager

Delegated Producer

Assistant Unit Manager

Monique Chevallier

Production Secretary