An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.
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| Pierre Richard | ... | Pierre Vidal | |
| Jane Birkin | ... | Janet | |
| Michel Aumont | ... | Commissaire Brunet | |
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Marc Doelnitz | ... | Marc (as Marc Doelsnitz) |
| Amadeus August | ... | Gunther | |
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Henri Déus | ... | Mike |
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Luis Rego | ... | Franz |
| Catherine Allégret | ... | Nicole | |
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André Bézu | ... | André |
| Jean Martin | ... | Le directeur de la banque | |
| Claude Dauphin | ... | De Rovère | |
| Paul Cambo | ... | Le P.D.G. | |
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Henri Attal | ... | Le contrôleur |
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François Cadet | ... | Le premier brigadier |
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Philippe Dehesdin | ... | Philippe |
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An awkward banker tracks down cabaret performers, who stole the ownership title of their nightclub.
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A not so capable man (played by Pierre Richard) is appointed to handle the affairs of a bank during the time the director is gone. When he's in charge, a suitcase with an important paper gets stolen, and he wants to retrieve it. Police thinks he's the culprit and his girlfriend wants him back. So, basically, everyone's after Pierre Richard in this film.
I expected not much. A film by Claude Zidi, once a camera operator from Claude Chabrol, who made a bunch of mediocre comedies. As if to prove this, there's a joke with a toilet bowl only after five minutes.
But it was too hard to resist to the gags and I started giggling anyhow. The thing is, Pierre Richard pulls it all off every time - trying to yell 'au secours' when his voice is hoarse, fumbling with keys, playing a blind man, reassuring a detective that there are no problems while there obviously are. Even the joke with the toilet bowl.
It's a goofy comedy, with a lot of predictable jokes, but it's PASSIONATELY GOOFY. Although this film is far from Le Grand Blond..., the best Pierre Richard-film I know of, it has great speed and some funny episodes. Most funny bits, for me, were the exuberant episodes in a carnivalesque train and the grand final. I rate it 6/10.