| Les Morfalous | |
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| Directed by | Henri Verneuil |
| Written by | Michel Audiard Pierre Siniac |
| Starring | Jean-Paul Belmondo Michel Constantin Marie Laforêt Michel Creton Jacques Villeret |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Jacques Saulnier |
| Editing by | Pierre Gillette |
| Distributed by | Alain Belmondo Tarak Ben Ammar |
| Release date(s) | 28 March 1984 |
| Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Les Morfalous (literally The Greedy-Guts, in French argot) is a 1984 action-comedy French film, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Henri Verneuil, featuring the French Foreign Legion during the Second World War.
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In French Tunisia, during the Second World War, a convoy of the French Foreign Legion is charged to recover gold bars of six billion francs from a bank in El Ksour in order to bring them into a safe place for the French government.
The 4 April 1943, the Foreign Legion enters the town of El Ksour which is partially destroyed. A German platoon, who holds the town, ambush the FFL convoy and kill most of them. Only 5 légionnaires survive the attack and take refuge in a hotel in ruins. At night, Légionnaire Borzik is killed while trying to bring weapons and ammunitions back to the rest of the team.
The 4 remaining légionnaires find the corpulent and pusillanimous artilleryman Beral sitting in the toilets, suffering from dysentery. However, with his brave assistance, Sergent Augagneur will be able to use an abandoned French cannon to kill or drive out the Germans.
The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive. The legionnaires arrest an Afrika Korps lieutenant.
Gold feverish Sergent Augagneur wants to share the gold between the four légionnaires and start to fight with Adjudant Mahuzard who wants to accomplish the mission.
Trying to steal the gold bars by heading South with a tank, Sergent Augagneur runs in an entire French army, marching North, and successfully pretends he was looking for them to give the gold bars back. Sergent Augagneur is finally awarded with the Légion d'Honneur for this action.