The Wild Oat (1953)

The Wild Oat (1953)

Release Date: 1953, February 27
Directors: Henri Verneuil
Countries: France, Italy
Production: Cité Films, Fidès Film, Cité Films, Fidès Film, Peg Produzione, Peg Produzione
Cast: Jean Gaven, Fernandel, Mag-Avril, Georges Chamarat, Henri Vilbert, Fernand Sardou, Edmond Ardisson, Francis Linel, Jenny Hélia, Henri Arius, Leda Gloria, Madeleine Sylvain

Overview:

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.