Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Jean Rochefort	...	Captain
	Claude Rich	...	Le médecin, Pierre
	Aurore Clément	...	Aurore (as Aurore Clement)
	Odile Versois	...	Madame
	Pierre Rousseau
	Jacques Dufilho	...	Chef mécanicien
	Jacques Perrin	...	Lt. Willsdorff, 'le Crabe-Tambour'
	Yann Brannelec
	Jean Champion
	Nguyen Long Cuong
	François Dyrek
	Jean Hennau
	Yves Morgan-Jones
	Bernard La Jarrige	...	Le recteur
	François Landolf

Storyline

A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crab tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. "Le crab tambour" the drummer crab" was a boyhood nickname for the handsome young Alsatian whom the film depicts proving his courage, first in the war in French Indochina, and then again in the "Generals' Revolt" in Algeria. Courtmartialed because friends like the French naval captain were afraid to risk their own careers by testifying for him, the exiled "crab tambour" and his trawler, The Shamrock, is now a legend among the Grand Banks fishermen. Written by Thomas Lipscomb <tom@infosafe.com>  

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