Letters from My Windmill

Letters from My Windmill (Les Lettres De Mon Moulin) was adapted by French-filmmaker Marcel Pagnol from three short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The first, The Three Low Masses, involves a clergyman whose taste for gourmet foods leads him to confrontation with Satan. The Elixir of Father Gaucher tells of a group of monks who deal in homemade wines and spirits to replenish their church coffers. And The Secret of Master Cornille is the story of businessman's harmless ruse which snowballs into near-tragedy. Roger Crouzet plays Alphonse Daudet, who repairs to a deserted windmill to write the three stories dramatized herein. The US prints of Letters from My Windmill contain subtitles written by Hollywood expatriate Preston Sturges.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide