Criminals have chosen an ordinary man to carry drugs and jewels in his car across the border. The problem is that this man turned out too much ordinary.
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Cast
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| Bourvil | ... | Antoine Maréchal | |
| Louis de Funès | ... | Léopold Saroyan | |
| Venantino Venantini | ... | Mickey dit le bègue ou la souris | |
| Henri Génès | ... | Martial (as Henri Genés) | |
| Lando Buzzanca | ... | Lino | |
| Jacques Eyser | ... | Un complice de Saroyan | |
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Henri Virlojeux | ... | Un complice de Saroyan |
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Jean Meyer | ... | Un complice de Saroyan |
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Jack Ary | ... | Le douanier-chef (as Jacques Ary) |
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Jean-Marie Bon | ... | Le garagiste à Rome |
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Guy Delorme | ... | Luigi - un homme de Mickey |
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Jean Droze | ... | Un homme de Saroyan |
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Jacques Ferrière | ... | Un homme de Saroyan (as Jacques Ferriere) |
| Guy Grosso | ... | Un douanier (as Grosso) | |
| Michel Modo | ... | Un douanier (as Modo) | |
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In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu". Written by KGF Vissers
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car | driving | limousine driver | french italian border | mediterranean |Taglines:
As only the French can do this...another screen delight after the long run of "A MAN AND A WOMAN"...about a man, a man and a woman! See more »Certificate:
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Release Date:
24 March 1965 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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FRF5,300,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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The vintage car driven by Bourvil is a '64 DeVille Cadillac. See more »Goofs
Maréchal falls in the sea backwards, but in the next shot he is clearly falling frontwards. See more »Quotes
Leopold Saroyan: But he's honest. You can see it in his face. And that's the best passport there is. For a customs officer, the person's the suspect, not the car.See more »
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It's a fun ride and there's no time to get bored. Some scenes in particular are genuinely funny (the shower scene with Louis de Funes is a classic, the whole shooting scene in the gardens is superb) and the film makers were positively inspired to produce quality comedy rather than just injecting generic humor into the movie just to fill in the scenes. It's more a case of actual gags, with natural organic humor, that were thought up carefully rather than just cramming a bit of processed haha to get through to the end.
It's carefully written and crafted, and it's quite a ride with all sorts of twists and bumps and new characters adding an extra dynamic to the story and Bourvil and De Funes do very well to add that warm organic feel to it as it easily could've been a film which comedy tag would only be honorary, and focused mostly on the plot. Many comedies are tagged as 'comedy' but aren't actually funny, they're just comedy in tone but won't actually make you laugh.
The last part, say about the last half hour, is a little bit stretchy, kind of takes a turn of its own and feels a tad different from the rest of the film, somewhat slows down the momentum, and does feel like they had to mix it up and were compelled to come up with content to finish off the picture, although the very last image is very true to the film.
7.5/10.