The poet on the bench at the beginning is Jacques Becker, assistant director for that movie. He later directed Casque d'or (1952) and other famous movies.
Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne:
Why have a piano if no one plays it?
Édouard Lestingois:
Even so, we have a piano because we are respectable people.
Édouard Lestingois:
The man who spits in Balzac's "Physiology of Marriage" is less than nothing to me.
Priape Boudu:
Who is that man?
Édouard Lestingois:
Ask my wife.
Remade as
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
"Down and Out in Beverly Hills" (1987)
Boudu (2005)
- director Gérard Jugnot said his movie was a "new version" of Renoir's
Referenced in
Atalante, L' (1934)
- In both movies we see Michel Simon getting his hair cut by a dog clipper.
Quatre cents coups, Les (1959)
Nouvelle vague (1990)
- The "destitute man is killed, brought to live with rich family" plot comes from this film, as is much of the drowning element of the plot.
Featured in
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993) (TV)
- clip shown
The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
- Features the early part of the film with Boudu as one of the character of The Tulse Luper Suitcases.