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The Great Spy Chase: Directed by Georges Lautner. With Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier, Mireille Darc. A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
- (2K)
- Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier
- Georges Lautner
- 3 min
The Great Spy Chase. Les Barbouzes ( Barbouze being French slang for a spy, deriving from the idea that spies hide behind false beards) is a 1964 French cult comedy film, screened in the United States as The Great Spy Chase. [1] Starring Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier and Mireille Darc, with dialogue by Michel Audiard, it is an espionage caper ...
- French
The Great Spy Chase 1964 1h 55m Comedy List Reviews 87% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Four rival spies try to seduce a widow to obtain her husband's secret information.
- (18)
- Georges Lautner
- Comedy
- Lino Ventura
Georges Lautner. Director. Albert Simonin. Writer. Michel Audiard. Writer. A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
The Great Spy Chase (1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The first French spy-parody to benefit from the Bond phenomenon was Les Barbouzes, Lautner's immediate follow up to his massively successful gangster parody Les Tontons flingueurs (1963). Lautner repeats the winning formula of that earlier film, engaging Michel Audiard as dialogist and Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche and Bernard Blier - a winning ...
The setup of the spy going missing and the train ride is very Agatha Christie before it slowly descends into mayhem with the international cast of spies. The sequence introducing them all only really has the joke that their names are silly but that being said, a spy named ‘Requiem’ goes pretty hard. The movie is a pretty fun Cold War ...
