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Synopsis
Fernand Gravey and Jacques Duby star as a pair of slick race track touts in need of some quick cash. Targetting rural rube Jean Richard as a patsy, the two sharpsters con him into putting up his hard-earned cash on a few sure things. Within what seems like seconds, Richard becomes wealthy by using his instincts, while the "clever" Gravey and Duby come a-cropper by playing the odds. If it's possible for a French film to be Runyonesque, then Courte Tete is that film.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (25)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Intermondia Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions René Château
- French distribution : Rank
Full credits (14)
- Assistant directors : Jacques Deray, Georges Lautner
- Adaptation : Norbert Carbonnaux
- Dialogue Writer : Michel Audiard
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Claude Marchetti
- Screenwriter : Albert Simonin
- Director of Photography : Roger Dormoy
- Camera Operator : René Ribault
- Production Manager : André Cultet
- Editor : Jacqueline Thiedot
- Assistant editor : Colette Charbonneau
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Darricades
- Production Designer : Jacques Colombier
- Music Composer : Jean Prodromidès
- Location Manager : Eric Geiger
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French
- Production year : 1956
- French release : 10/10/1956
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 18335
- Visa issue date : 09/10/1956
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
