The Cupboard Was Bare poster

Movie · 1948

The Cupboard Was Bare

Released 29 October 1948 More from 1948 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Berthe Bovy
as Madame Léa Lobligeois
61
Gaston Modot
as Gangster
60
Marcel Pérès
as Frejus
50
Edmond Beauchamp
as Commissioner
48
Frédéric O'Brady
as Inspector (uncredited)
44
Albert Michel
as Agent (uncredited)
39
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
22years between the oldest and youngest billed
61Berthe Bovy — oldest on the call sheet
39Albert Michel — youngest billed
50average age of the credited cast
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