The Wild Oat

Comedy

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Henri Verneuil

Status Released

Release Date 1953-02-27

Storyline

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.