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Bourvil
Augustin Bouvet
Louis de Funès
Stanislas Lefort
Terry-Thomas
Reginald Brook
Claudio Brook
Peter Cunningham
Mike Marshall
Alan MacIntosh
Marie Dubois
Juliette
Pierre Bertin
Juliette's Grandfather
Andréa Parisy
Marie-Odile
Mary Marquet
Mother Superior
Colette Brosset
Ms. Germaine
Benno Sterzenbach
Major Achbach
Henri Génès
Keeper of Vincennes Zoo
Paul Préboist
Fisherman
Sieghardt Rupp
Lieutenant Sturmer
Guy Grosso
Talkative Bassoonist
Michel Modo
Cross-eyed Soldier
Rudy Lenoir
German Soldier
Jacques Bodoin
Opera Singer Playing Mephistopheles
Helmuth Schneider
German Officer in Dining Car
Hans Meyer
Otto Weber
Mag-Avril
Elderly Tenant
Paul Mercey
Mustachioed Man at Turkish Bath
Pierre Bastien
Plombin
Noël Darzal
Lucien
Jacques Sablon
Bébert
Jean Droze
Other Talkative Bassoonist
Catherine Marshall
Nun at Beaune Hospices
Reinhard Kolldehoff
German Corporal (uncredited)
Gabriel Gobin
Resistance Stagehand at Opera (uncredited)
Pierre Roussel
Peter’s Neighbor in Dining Car (uncredited)
Peter Jacob
German General (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Posier
Patrick (uncredited)
Alice Field
Parisian Prostitute (uncredited)
Georges Atlas
Gestapo Officer at Augustin’s Studio (uncredited)
Rémy Julienne
Motorcyclist Receiving Pumpkin (uncredited)
Anne Berger
Marguerite (uncredited)
Guy Bonnafoux
Turkish Bath Employee (uncredited)
Clément Michu
Postal Worker at Station (uncredited)
Konrad von Bork
German Colonel (uncredited)
Jerry Brouer
German Soldier (uncredited)
Percival Russel
Knocked-Out German Soldier (uncredited)
George Birt
Harry (uncredited)
Nicolas Bang
John (uncredited)
Raymond Pierson
German Soldier (uncredited)
Christian Brocard
Railway Station Employee (uncredited)
Sacha Tarride
Waiter #1 (uncredited)
Lionel Vitrant
Barbot (uncredited)
Anthony Stuart
Dick (uncredited)
Claude Salez
German Officer (uncredited)
Fred Fischer
German Colonel (uncredited)
Édouard Pignon
(uncredited)
Jean Minisini
German Soldier (uncredited)
Joachim Westhoff
Actor from Faust at Opera (uncredited)
Tony Rödel
German Non-Commissioned Officer (uncredited)
Georges-Fréderic Dehlen
German Colonel (uncredited)
Guy Fox
Fat Man (uncredited)
Charly Constant
Ludwig (uncredited)
Rolph Spath
Aide-de-Camp (uncredited)
Gérard Martin
Harpist (uncredited)
Danièle Thompson
(uncredited)

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Fri Feb 10 2023

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 rather disparate selection of people to try and keep them from the hands of the Gestapo, and to help smuggle them out of the city and to some semblance of safety. It has all the hallmarks of a slightly less bawdy "Carry-On" film with some characterful performances from Bouvril ("Bouvet") and the increa...