Comedy Action Thriller
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Directed by
Georges Lautner
Written by
Michel Audiard, Albert Simonin
Noël Roquevert
Colonel Lanoix
Robert Dalban
Truck driver (uncredited)
Francis Blanche
Boris Vassiliev
Bernard Blier
Eusebio Cafarelli
Lino Ventura
Francis Lagneau
Pierre-Jean Vaillard
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Jess Hahn
Commodore O'Brien
Mireille Darc
Amaranthe
Jacques Balutin
Customs officer
Gérard Darrieu
Agent Fiduc
Charles Millot
Hans Müller
Monique Mélinand
Mrs. Lagneau (uncredited)
Philippe Castelli
Istanbul hotel receptionist
Françoise Giret
Mrs. Pauline
Hubert Deschamps
Customs officer (uncredited)
André Weber
Rudolphe Rossini
Michel Dacquin
Barbouze of the train (uncredited)
Ham Chau Luong
Chinese on the train (uncredited)
Louis Arbessier
Swiss colonel
Marius Gaidon
Stabbed spy (uncredited)
Yves Elliot
Jean-Pierre Moutier
Employee of the Colonel
Luce Bonifassy
Robert Secq
Constantin Benard Shah
Violette Marceau
Lucienne, aka Rosalinde
Anne-Marie Blot
One of Mrs. Pauline's daughters
Michel Duplaix
Barbouze with Fiduc
Lutz Gabor
German Colonel
Raoul Saint-Yves
Sleeper employee
Georges Guéret
American in Lisbon (uncredited)

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