When NATO transfers some of its funds from Paris to Brussels by train, a criminal mastermind posing as a British colonel plans to steal it but two petty French thieves also have the same intent.
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| Jean-Paul Belmondo | ... | Arthur Lespinasse | |
| Bourvil | ... | Anatole | |
| David Niven | ... | Colonel Carol Matthews | |
| Eli Wallach | ... | Frankie Scannapieco | |
| Silvia Monti | ... | Sofia | |
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Raymond Gérôme | ... | Le commissaire bègue |
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Jacques Balutin | ... | L'inspecteur Pochet |
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Henri Attal | ... | Un homme de la bande |
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Yves Barsacq | ... | Un gardien de prison |
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Jacques Ciron | ... | L'inspecteur Duboeuf |
| Robert Dalban | ... | Le policier militaire belge enrhumé | |
| Mario David | ... | Jean-François - un antiquaire | |
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Raoul Delfosse | ... | Un policier militaire belge |
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Tommy Duggan | ... | Le superintendant Cummings |
| Henri Génès | ... | Le gardien-chef de la prison de Poissy | |
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Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing. Written by Jean-Yves Simon <simon@wotangate.micro.ti.com>
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Release Date:
13 November 1969 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$3,600,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Arthur Lespinasse: It's not like France is still under NATO.
Anatole: Okay. That changes everything, but...
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The film has been shot in two languages (French and English) with the same cast. See more »Goofs
The first car of the train would definitely not be used in a passenger train and must have carried the crew's equipment. Placing the safe car in the middle of the consist prevents passengers from going from the tail to the head of the train. The first explosion breaks the air brake circuit, then the whole train should stop, not only the tail cars. See more »Quotes
Anatole: You're not thinking of hijacking 14 nations?Arthur Lespinasse: It's not like France is still under NATO.
Anatole: Okay. That changes everything, but...
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The alternate English version runs 95 minutes (20 less than the French version). See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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Occasionally seen on TV in France, this film has now been issued on a double DVD in France with French subtitles only. Picture quality is superb ( THX Standard ). The film is extremely entertaining, to say the least, quite normal as the directer is the great Gérard Oury and on a par with such films as Le Corniaud or La Grande Vadrouille. I'm sure it's well known across the world, even if people don't know its title, if only because of David Niven's head that slants to one side because his brain's too heavy. There's a mixture of actors here, some French, some foreign and it has that light hearted happy-go-lucky-swinging-sixties look as typified by the Italian Job and other similar films. Knowing the perverse nature of things, now that this commentary has been written, the film will probably turn up on DVD in the coming months !! Let's hope so anyway !