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La Grande Vadrouille 
The US release posterDirected by Gérard Oury Produced by Robert Dorfmann Written by Marcel Jullian Starring Terry-Thomas
Bourvil
Louis de Funès
Claudio BrookMusic by Georges Auric
Hector BerliozCinematography André Domage
Alain Douarinou
Claude RenoirEditing by Albert Jurgenson Release date(s) 1 December 1966 Running time 132 minutes Country France Language French
English
GermanLa Grande Vadrouille (literally "The Great Stroll"; released in the United States as Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!) is a 1966 Franco-British comedy film about how the crew of a Royal Air Force B-17 shot down over Paris must then make their way through German-occupied France with the main help of two French citizens with very different mindsets.
For over forty years, until the release of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis in 2008, La Grande Vadrouille was the most successful French film in France, topping the box office with over 17,200,000 cinema admissions. It remains the third most successful film ever in France, of any nationality, behind the 1997 version of Titanic and Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, both of which were seen by over 20,000,000 cinemagoers.[1][2]
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Plot
Summer 1941. Over German Nazi occupied France, a Royal Air Force Avro Lancaster becomes lost after a mission and is shot down over Paris by German flak. The crew, Sir Reginald, Peter Cunningham and Alan MacIntosh, parachutes out over the city, where they run into and 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 tangled up in the manhunt against the aviators led by Wehrmacht Major Achbach as they help the airmen to go back to England with the help of Resistance fighters and sympathizers.
Cast
- André Bourvil as Augustin Bouvet
- Louis de Funès as Stanislas Lefort
- Terry-Thomas as Sir Reginald ("Big Moustache")
- Claudio Brook as Peter Cunningham
- Mike Marshall as Alan MacIntosh
- Marie Dubois as Juliette
- Pierre Bertin as Juliette's grandfather
- Andrea Parisy as Sister Marie-Odile
- Mary Marquet as The Upper Sister
- Benno Sterzenbach as Major Aschbach
- Paul Préboist as The fisherman
See also
References
- ^ Data on fr:Allociné
- ^ "Les Ch'tis plus forts que La Grande vadrouille", Olivier Corriez, TF1
External links
Categories:- 1960s comedy films
- 1966 films
- Aviation films
- Films about shot-down aviators
- Films about the French Resistance
- Films directed by Gérard Oury
- Films set in Paris
- French comedy films
- French films
- French war films
- Military humor in film
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