Merlusse

On Christmas Eve, twenty boys with nowhere to go are left behind at a Marseille lycée, and the school puts Merlusse (Henri Poupon) in charge of them. The pupils' nickname for him means codfish, and his glass eye stares at them as sternly as the good one while he marches the aisles and hands out tasks. Pagnol shot it in the Lycée Thiers, the school he attended himself, and the film keeps to the dormitories and the long empty holiday hours.