The Man from Nowhere

Mathias Pascal saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging motherinlaw leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts He returns home and discovers that a drowned man fished out of the river bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him This to him is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome where he falls in love with Louise Paleari Count Papiano a jealous suitor of Louises threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity