Les Cracks
1968 Comedy   

 

Credits
  • Director: Alex Joffé
  • Script: Gabriel Arout, Jean Bernard-Luc, Alex Joffé, Pierre Lévy-Corti
  • Photo: Jean Bourgoin
  • Music: Georges Delerue
  • Cast: Bourvil (Jules Auguste Duroc), Robert Hirsch (Me Mulot), Monique Tarbès (Delphine Duroc), Michel de Ré (Le marquis de Lion), Anne Jolivet (Jocelyne), Bernard Verley (Lelièvre), Gianni Bonagura (Pifarelli), Roger Caccia (Le semeur-pêcheur), Patrick Préjean (Médard), Francis Lax (Carrel), Max Fournel (Osmond), Teddy Bilis (Mouton), Paul Wagner (Latina)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 110 min
  • Aka: The Hotshots

 
Summary
In the early 1900s, Jules Auguste Duroc has invented a revolutionary new bicycle which he hopes will make his fortune.  Unfortunately, he has managed to bankrupt himself before he can profit from his invention.  When the over-zealous bailiff Léon Charles Mulot calls at his shop, Duroc makes a hasty retreat on his bicycle, and ends up at the starting line of the Paris to San Remo cycle race.  The adventure has only just begun!

Review
French comedy giant Bourvil surpasses himself in this hilarious madcap chase film, the kind of film that was hugely popular in the mid-1960s - other notable examples include The Great Race (1965) and Monte Carlo and Bust (in which Bourvil had a small part).  Replete with visual gags – some of which are worthy of the great Buster Keaton – Les Cracks is unflagging escapist fun with guarantees a fair quantity of laughs.


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