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Overview
La Poudre d’escampette is a French-Italian adventure film first released in 1971,
directed by Philippe de Broca.
The film stars Amidou, Luigi Bonos, Jean Bouise, Ernesto Colli and Umberto D’Orsi.
It has also been released under the title: French Leave.
Our overall rating for this film is: good.
Synopsis
One evening, on the coast of Libya, Valentin, an arms smuggler, saves
the life of a young British officer named Basil whose aeroplane has
been shot down at sea. Valentin has an urgent business engagement
and advises Basil to head south, to where the British troops are based
on Italian soil. Basil instead chooses to follow Valentin to a
hotel where he asks to spend the night. A party of Italian
soldiers arrive, looking for Basil. They are about to take
Valentin away when the English officer opens fire and kills one of the
Italians. The two men manage to escape, thanks to Lorene,
the wife of the Swiss consul. With Basil and Valentin concealed
in her car, she will make an attempt to pass a German roadblock...
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