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Jean Forest (left) and Maurice de Féraudy.     Photograph: Lobster Films collection; courtesy Le Giornate del     Cinema Muto.

Cast: Maurice de Féraudy [Jérôme Crainquebille], Marguerite Carré [Madame Laure], Jeanne Cheirel [Madame Bayard], Jean Forest [la souris (the mouse)], Armand Numès [the judge], Félix Oudart [constable 64], René Worms [Lemerle, the defense attorney], Charles Mosnier [Doctor Mathieu], Françoise Rosay [a shoe store customer]

Films Legrand production. / Scenario by Jacques Feyder, from the short story L’affaire Crainquebille by Anatole France. Art direction by Manuel Orazi. Cinematography by Léonce-Henri Burel and Maurice Forster. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Red Seal Pictures in 1923. The film was restored by Lobster Films, Paris, in collaboration with Lenny Borger in 2005.

Drama: Social satire.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Lobster Films, Paris, film collection [35mm restoration negative, 35mm restoration positives]; and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Authors: Anatole France - Dreams - Law: Judges

Listing updated: 5 September 2008.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 162-163, 233; Limbacher-Feature p. 52 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Lenny Borger.

Home video: DVD.