L'affaire est dans le sac (English: It's in the Bag) is a 1932 French comedy film, directed by Pierre Prévert and written by his more famous brother, poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert, based on a script by Ákos Ráthonyi.
While not a box office success at the time, it's nowadays considered a cult film.
A hatter, Benjamin Déboisé, with an accomplice, undertakes to kidnap the son of Hollister, a millionaire, abducting him in a bag.
[5][6][3] The film was produced by Pathé Distribution and was shot in eight days on a limited budget at the Pathé-Natan studios in Joinville-le-Pont.
[1][3] At the time the film was made, Jaques Prévert had just formed October Group, a left wing agitprop troupe, and many of the film's technicians and some of the actors became involved with that group.