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- The movie is an inspired blend of comedy and war-time drama. Set in 1942 Germany-occupied Paris during the Second World War, it revolves around the misadventures of a British bomber crew from the British Royal Air Force attempting to flee German soldiers, but was shot down over Paris.
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Plot. On a summer day in 1942, a lost RAF bomber strays over Paris and is shot down by German flak. After agreeing to rendezvous in the Turkish baths at the Grand Mosque of Paris, the crew parachute out, but only three evade capture. Sir Reginald lands in the Vincennes Zoo and, given civilian clothes by a friendly zookeeper, heads for the baths.
- $2.3 million
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 to escape to England.
Do you know how you can tell if someone is French? They've seen "La Grande Vadrouille", the cult classic from 1966 with Louis de Funès and Bourvil, one of the best Louis de Funès movies of all time. "La Grande Vadrouille" is a heartwarming comedy that has achieved legendary status in French cinema.
La Grande vadrouille represents the absolute pinnacle of mainstream French comedy in the 1960s, a big budget period extravaganza that brought together three of the most popular comic actors of the era - Bourvil, Louis de Funès and Terry-Thomas - and could hardly help being a runaway success.
- Gérard Oury
Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!: Directed by Gérard Oury. With Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook, Andréa Parisy. Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity.
- (19K)
- Gérard Oury
- G
- Adventure, Comedy, War
Chock full of now classic scenes (Bourvil and Louis de Funès whistling in a Turkish bathhouse or disguised as Nazis, moseying about the French countryside), the film is now such a fixture in ...
Filmed in 1966, a little more than 20 years after the end of WWII, Gérard Oury's La Grande Vadrouille represents a certain step in the evolution of the French (and not only French) films about the war that devastated Europe and the whole world.
