La Grande Vadrouille
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| Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! | |
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 The US release poster |
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| Directed by | Gérard Oury |
| Produced by | Robert Dorfmann |
| Starring | Terry-Thomas Bourvil Louis de Funès Claudio Brook |
| Music by | Georges Auric Hector Berlioz |
| Cinematography | André Domage Alain Douarinou Claude Renoir |
| Editing by | Albert Jurgenson |
| Release date(s) | December 8, 1966 (France) |
| Running time | 132 min 101 min (West Germany) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
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La Grande Vadrouille (literally: The Great 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 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, La Grande Vadrouille was the most successful French film in France of all time, topping the box office with over 17,200,000 viewers in cinema. It finally lost that distinction in 2008, when Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis attracted over 17,400,000 cinema-goers. 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.[1] [2]
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Trivia
- Given the history of usage of the B-17 by RAF, the events in the movie take place in the summer of 1941.
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[edit] References
- ^ Data on fr:Allociné
- ^ "Les Ch'tis plus forts que La Grande vadrouille", Olivier Corriez, TF1
