"Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On Christmas eve, when some twenty of the students—orphans, foreigners or just plain "unwanteds"—had to remain in the boarding school, Merlusse is placed in charge. His glass eye glares at them stonily, his good one with no less severity. He sets them to tasks, marches like a proctor up and down the aisles, exacts to the utmost the last measure of discipline. But when the youngsters awake in the morning, there are toys by each bed in the dormitory and M. Blanchard, no longer to be called Merlusse, is exposed for the softhearted fraud he is.
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Cast
Henri Poupon Merlusse
André Pollack The Headmaster Thommeray The Dean
André Robert The Senior Supervisor
Rellys The Porter
Annie Toinon Nathalie Jean Castan Galubert
Fernand Bruno Catusse
Robert Chaux Godard
Le Petit Jacques Villepontoux
Le-Van-Kim Macaque
John Dubrou Pic
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