La Grande Vadrouille

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La Grande Vadrouille (literally: The Grand Stroll. Released in the USA as Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!) is a 1966 comedy film about how the crew of a Royal Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress shot down over Paris makes its way through German-occupied France with the main help of two French citizens with very different mindset. It was the highest-grossing film in France from the time of its release until the release of the 1997 Titanic.

Plot

Summer 1942. During the Nazi Occupation in France, a Royal Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress gets lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachute out right over the city. They are hidden by a house painter, Augustin Bouvet, and the grumbling conductor of the Opéra National de Paris, Stanislas Lefort. Involuntarily, Lefort and Bouvet get themselves involved in the manhunt against the aviators, led by Major Achbach. They have to help the flyboys to go back to England with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathizers.

Cast

• Bourvil : Augustin Bouvet
• Louis de Funès : Stanislas Lefort
• Terry-Thomas : Sir Reginald (Big moustache)
• Claudio Brook : Peter Cunningham
• Mike Marshall : Alan Mac Intosh
• Marie Dubois : Juliette
• Pierre Bertin : Juliette's grandfather
• Andrea Parisy : Sister Marie-Odile
• Mary Marquet : The upper Sister
• Benno Sterzenbach : Major Achbach
• Paul Préboist : The fisherman

Trivia

• Given the history of usage of the B-17 by RAF, the events in the movie take place in the summer of 1941.

See also

• Bourvil
• Louis de Funès
• Le Corniaud

External links

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