Movie
Cloportes
Overview
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
Details
- Release date
- 1965-09-08
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Les Films du Siècle, Produzioni Artistiche Internazionali
- Country
- France, Italy
- Original language
- FR
Cast
- Lino Ventura as Alphonse Maréchal aka 'Le Malin'
- Charles Aznavour as Edmond Clancul aka 'Le Naïf'
- Irina Demick as Catherine Verdier, manager of an art gallery
- Maurice Biraud as Arthur aka 'Le Mou'
- Georges Géret as Joseph Rouquemoute aka 'Le Rouquin'
- Pierre Brasseur as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
- Françoise Rosay as Gertrude, supplies specialist in the mafia
- Annie Fratellini as Léone Rouqemoute, prostitute
- Norman Bart as Gallery visitor
- Georges Blaness as Omar
- Dorothée Blanck as Girl at the hotel particulier
- Marcel Charvey as Gallery visitor
Crew
- Pierre Granier-Deferre - Director
- Pierre Granier-Deferre - Writer
- Albert Simonin - Writer
- Michel Audiard - Writer
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