La Grande Vadrouille
(1966)
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La Grande Vadrouille
(1966)
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Bourvil | ... |
Augustin Bouvet
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| Louis de Funès | ... |
Stanislas Lefort
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Claudio Brook | ... |
Peter Cunningham
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Andréa Parisy | ... |
Soeur Marie-Odile /
Sister Marie-Odile
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Colette Brosset | ... |
Germaine
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Mike Marshall | ... | |
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Mary Marquet | ... |
Mère Supérieure
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Pierre Bertin | ... |
Le grand-père de Juliette - propriétaire du guignol
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Benno Sterzenbach | ... |
Major Achbach
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Marie Dubois | ... |
Juliette
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| Terry-Thomas | ... |
Sir Reginald
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Sieghardt Rupp | ... |
Lt. Stuermer
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Reinhard Kolldehoff | ... |
Un caporal allemand
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Helmuth Schneider | ... |
L'officier allemand dans le train
(as Helmut Schneider)
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Paul Préboist | ... |
Le pêcheur
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A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians (Louis De Funès in the role of a conductor and Bourvil as a house painter) they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans. Written by Gerard Bader <badergac@wxs.nl>
I have seen this film (dubbed into Russian) back in USSR (before 1989). In soviet Union, dubbing of foreign films was an art form of the highest professional level. It is a great comedy in the ranks of "It's a mad, mad, mad world"(USA) and "Brilliantovaya ruka"(Diamond Arm) (USSR). Bourvil, Louis de Funes and Terry Thomas are the three pillars of European comedy cinema of the 1960's. Here, I finally found out the tile in English and French, because translating from Russian "The Great Promenade" only garnered me blank stares. It's a great example of how a free people love to make fun of their conquerors. Unfortunately war is not often as much fun as this film.