Kleren maken de man

Summary

Crime comedy involving a rented tuxedo starring Kees Brusse.

A secret document, a stolen tuxedo, a detective, a chase or two and a baffling chain of events… Nothing seems to faze insurance agent Hans (Kees Brusse) who also finds time to win the heart of a beautiful girl. German director Georg Jacoby’s airy comedy included a raft of well-known Dutch actors, such as Rijk de Gooyer, Lex Goudsmit and Andrea Domburg as well as old hands Johan Kaart and Bernhard Droog.

Georg Jacoby had already made more than a hundred comedies like Kleren maken de man. In Germany his main claim to fame was his marriage to the singing film star Marika Rökk. Together they made a number of saccharine comedies during the war in an effort to keep up the troops’ morale, a fact that didn’t seem to stand in the way of his participation in this Dutch production.