À couteaux tirés (1964)

Dir: Charles Gérard Comedy / Drama stars 2

Overview

À couteaux tirés is a French film comedy-drama first released in 1964, directed by Charles Gérard. The film stars Françoise Arnoul, Petula Clark, Marcel Dalio, René Havard and Daniel Ivernel. It has also been released under the title: Daggers Drawn. Our overall rating for this film is: mediocre.

Synopsis

A nightclub owner joins forces with an American hoodlum and former officer in the German navy to try to recover a lost Nazi treasure, which was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea towards the end of WWII. The booty consists of a fantastic quantity of diamonds and a number of compromising secret documents which expose several onetime Nazi sympathisers. Locating this treasure is one thing. Profiting from its recovery is an entirely different matter...

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Credits

Director: Charles Gérard
Script: Charles Gérard, Pascal Jardin
Photo: Claude Robin
Music: Petula Clark
Cast: Françoise Arnoul (Lucie Antonini), Petula Clark (Herself), Marcel Dalio (Jean Grégor), René Havard (Bobby), Daniel Ivernel (Le commissaire Mattei), Pierre Mondy (Robert Antonini), Jacques Monod (Lucien Leonetti), Jean Marchat (L’avocat de Robert), François Maistre (Le médecin), Mercédès Molinar (Sandra), Ricky Cooper (L’Américain), Yves Barsacq (Fernand), Richard Bigotini (Un prévenu), Jean-Jacques Steen (Un inspecteur), Raoul Saint-Yves (Le barman), Gérard Buhr (Ludwig Hermann), Yvonne Gradelet (La comtesse)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 83 min; B&W
Aka: Daggers Drawn

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