Synopsis
When he is not working as a stage performer, Emile (Yves Montand) works as a small-time con-man. He has a brand-new plan for a big job and needs the services of one of his former assistants. He also persuades a young actress to help out with part of the plan: kidnapping the child of a very shady arms merchant who will be pressured to keep the police off their backs. Emile is a kindly man with more charm than skill. When his plans go badly awry, he sends the two assistants away as a couple, along with the baby they had planned to substitute for the child in the arms merchant's house.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (8)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Production 2000, Gaumont, Fildebroc Productions
- Foreign production company : Da Ma Produzione
- Film exports/foreign sales : Gaumont
- French distribution : Gaumont
Full credits (20)
- Executive Producer : Alain Poiré
- Adaptation : Jean Vautrin, Claude Pinoteau
- Screenwriters : Claude Pinoteau, Jean Vautrin
- Dialogue Writer : Michel Audiard
- Director of Photography : Jean Collomb
- Music Composer : Georges Delerue
- Editors : Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, Fedora Zincone
- Sound Recordist : Bernard Bats
- Foreign Producer : Marcello Danon
- Author of original work : Rennie Airth
- Producers : Michelle De Broca, Alain Poiré
- Associate producers : Olivier Dassault, Albert Pottier, Nicolas Seydoux, Daniel Toscan du Plantier
- Camera Operator : Bernard Noisette
- Production managers : Robert Sussfeld, Marc Goldstaub
- Press Attaché (film) : Paulette Andrieux
- Continuity supervisor : Florence Moncorgé-Gabin
- Production Designer : Walter Patriarca
- Foley artist : Daniel Couteau
- Sound mixers : Alex Pront, Claude Villand
- Still Photographer : Georges Pierre
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Yes