During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops – and the consequences of their own blunders.
Gérard Oury
Robert Dorfmann
Gérard Oury
Marcel Jullian
Danièle Thompson
Claude Renoir
Georges Auric
Bourvil
Augustin Bouvet, house painter
Louis de Funès
Stanislas Lefort, conductor at the Paris Opera
Terry-Thomas
Squadron Leader Sir Reginald Brook, Royal Air Force
Claudio Brook
Peter Cunningham
Mike Marshall
Aircraftman Alan MacIntosh, Royal Air Force
Marie Dubois
Juliette
Pierre Bertin
Juliette's grandfather, owner of the Guignol theater
Andréa Parisy
Sister Marie-Odile
Mary Marquet
Mother Superior of the Hospices de Beaune
Colette Brosset
Madame Germaine
Benno Sterzenbach
Major Achbach
Henri Génès
Keeper of the Vincennes zoo with the Occitan accent
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I'd watched this entertainingly farcical French wartime comedy for about half hour before I realised that the chap who looked like Terry-Thomas was, actually, Terry-Thomas! He, like everyone else here, is in his element as an RAF bomber crew find themselves shot down over Paris and dependent on a ra...
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