Chéri-Bibi (1938 film)

Chéri-Bibi is a 1938 French drama film directed by Léon Mathot and starring Pierre Fresnay, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Marcel Dalio. It was based on the Chéri-Bibi series of novels by Gaston Leroux. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. The character had previously appeared in the 1931 American film The Phantom of Paris and would return in a 1955 French film Chéri-Bibi and a 1974 television series of the same title.

Synopsis
Chéri-Bibi is sentenced to serve time in penal colony in South America, but plots a mutiny and an escape with his fellow prisoners.

Cast

 * Pierre Fresnay as Francis dit Chéri-Bibi
 * Jean-Pierre Aumont as 	Raoul Palas
 * Marcel Dalio as 	Le donneur
 * Suzet Maïs as 	Ginette
 * Thomy Bourdelle as 	Fric-Frac
 * Lucien Dalsace as 	Le vieux Georges
 * René Navarre as Monsieur Charles
 * Georges Péclet as 	Duroc
 * Colette Darfeuil as Viviane
 * Raymond Aimos as 	La Ficelle
 * Georges Fels as	Théo
 * Maurice Humbert as 	Le sourd-muet
 * Victor Vina as Coranti
 * Liliane Lesaffre as 	Mademoiselle Roger
 * Robert Ozanne as 	Le Lorrain
 * Jean Marconi as 	Freddy
 * Adolf E. Licho as Boris
 * Max Doria as 	Émile
 * Alex Potino as 	Blanchette
 * Gérard Landry as 	Gérard