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Hoboes in Paradise

Hoboes in Paradise

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 15, 1945

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

80%

Original Title

Les gueux au paradis

Production Companies

Gaumont, Alcina

Director

René Le Hénaff

Description

In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.