A dead man walks into his own inheritance — and he wants his money BACK.
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astounding, the dead man reappears and... asks his money back!
Acting
Jules Berry's theatrical corpse-to-life transformation
Production
1944 Provence château as gloriously suspicious character
Director
Jean Tarride
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Occupation France, this was rare escapist entertainment when darkness dominated screens.
Jules Berry had played Death itself in 'La Mort du cygne' — returning from the grave was basically his brand.
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