Not the original cast but really cool scenes of the Point and old cars and busses. We never understood all the dialect but you could always get the drift of the story by the acting or the over acting
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Les Plouffe - Scènes tournées à Pointe Saint-Charles
La famille Plouffe (thème)
Histoire de la Télévision-4
Original cast
Gosh that was so nice to see these videos again I remember watching them with my mother ,now does anyone remember the radio show ,I don't know if I'm spelling it right [Les hommes et son pecher } something like that that program was on after supper on the radio that was way back in the 40's?? Suzanne
Could this be what you are thinking of, it was one of Quebecs popular literary works,
according to this wikipedia file,..it was also adapted to radio,etc etc
Here is the link, but it has been translated by Google ,& that is not always very reliable,but should give the jist of it...
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_homme_et_son_p%C3%A9ch%C3%A9_(roman)
-Les
This is the one on the radio in the 40's
http://archives.radio-canada.ca/arts_culture/medias/clips/16519/
Un homme et son péché
Date de diffusion : 11 septembre 1939
En 1939, Claude-Henri Grignon adapte son roman Un homme et son péché pour la radio. Le radioroman connaît un succès fulgurant et les auditeurs suivent avec passion les aventures de l'avare Séraphin Poudrier et de sa jeune épouse Donalda. Le 11 septembre 1939, la première émission, intitulée « Le chapeau de paille », est présentée aux auditeurs.
Seraphin: Un homme et son pêché (Trailer)
This one was made for TV .It seemed so so sad just from the music.
My daughter was into watching this.
Seraphin: Un homme et son pêché
A desperate young woman enters into a relationship that threatens to destroy any chance she ever had for true happiness in this period drama from Canada. Donalda Laloge's (Karine Vanasse) fiancé Alexis (Roy Dupuis) was away working in a labor camp when her father declared bankruptcy, and her life was changed forever. When wealthy, churlish Mayor Séraphin Poudrier (Pierre Lebeau) agrees to pay off her father's debts in exchange for her hand in marriage, the young women reluctantly submits. Later, when Alexis returns home to find his future bride in the arms of another man, he recognizes the complexity of the predicament, and struggles with his initial instincts to win her back. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Thanks ,yes it sounds so sad I wish I could have seen it on TV Suzanne
One star of that program was "Seraphin" a frugal man who also benefited from the follies of others, like money lenders do. When you call someone Seraphin now, you are not calling him an angel but a cheap person. The actor that played Seraphin was hated so much he had problems going out in public. It also almost killed is career because he was so identified by it>
As for not understanding the dialect in the "Plouffes" it's a shame because this became the roots of the quiet revolution. The province would stop for the show.Call for a taxi it would only show up after the show.In the bars nobody ordered drinks, they wouldn't get them. I remember one episode where Mr. Plouffe wanted to open a lumber yard, He wanted to call it "Plouffe Lumber" but his son the artist wanted to call it "cour a bois Plouffe"
his father argued no we want the french people to come here. Other shows would mention that if an English person applied for a job a Eaton's they were considered Bilingual. People would watch and realize that it was a picture of themselves. This is how the power of television came to quebec and made french people question how they wanted to live. Remember across Magan's tavern there was Magnan's lumber
Wow that is fantastic information,a lot of quebec historiy involved too....
As for the actor being hated publicly ,reminds me of the character from MASH that was hated by the public too ,whenever he went out he was assumed to be the character of Frank,......and people thought he was a weisel.....wow typecasting sure was hard on some actors.
Seraphin ....I will remember that term, maybe use it,as this info from you has given me a good story to re-tell............ HF&RV - Les
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