Adventure Comedy War
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Directed by
Marcel Camus
Written by
Marcel Jullian
Terry-Thomas
Commander Perry of British HQ
Bourvil
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Jean Poiret
Armand, resistance leader and double agent
Stephen Yardley
Bobby
Peter McEnery
Jeff, the downed British airman
Michel Robin
Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel
Pino Caruso
Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
Patrick Préjean
Officer of the British HQ
William Mervyn
Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father
Robert Le Béal
Officer of the British HQ
Fernand Guiot
German corporal of 'Totor'
Georges Staquet
Hippolyte, leader of the resistance
Annabel Leventon
Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
Roger Lumont
French chef in London
Sophie Desmarets
Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon
Billy Kearns
Training camp commander
Roland Lesaffre
Fake resistance fighter full of tics
Sara Franchetti
Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon
Jacques Balutin
Resistant gendarme
Guy Delorme
German sailor
Jackie Sardou
Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter
Norman Mitchell
Bobby
Jess Hahn
British colonel
Frank Williams
Clergyman
Jean-Pierre Zola
Colonel Muller
Gerald Campion
Clergyman
Jean Rupert
British HQ order
Peter Myers
Colonel in the R.A.F.
Jacques Préboist
Ernest
Rudy Lenoir
German non-commissioned officer
Marcel Gassouk
German corporal
Maurice Auzel
British soldier (uncredited)
Rico López
Albert
Michel Berreur
Pierre Decazes
SS soldier
Roger Trapp
Tramp in prison
Antoine Baud
Feldgendarme
Paul Savatier
Prison guard
Yvon Lec
Gédéon Charlus
John Eppler
Erwin Rommel
René Rall
Gestapo policeman
Roger Guillo
Prunier, cook in London
Janine Dill
Passerby
Anthony Stuart
Officer of the British HQ
Jean Moulard
Gestapo policeman
Roger Mailles
Gendarme
Gilbert Roimarmier
German non-commissioned officer
Guy Allombert
German officer
Bill Horsley
R.A.F. orderly
Jacques Marbeuf
German non-commissioned officer
Odile Astié

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