In 1925, a sailor named Cornelius von Zeelinga is caught attempting to smuggle
a large consignment of rum into the country. Luckily he has his wits
about him and he narrowly manages to evade the police. Within a few
months, he is safely back in Jamaica, a rich man. He nurtures an intense
passion for the movie star Linda Larue and becomes obsessed with meeting
her in the flesh. To that end, he follows her to Cuba, but his first
impression of her is nothing like what he had imagined. Few women can
resist Cornelius von Zeelinga's powers of seduction and even the frosty Linda
Larue yields in the end. And who can resist a man with a boat?
The kind of adventure that the actress has so far only experienced in the
movies is now offered to her for real by this wild force of nature.
But where there is adventure there is also danger, and Linda and Cornelius
will have both in abundance before their story is told...
Script: Robert Enrico,
Tony Recoder,
Jacques Pecheral (novel),
Pierre Pelegri (dialogue)
Cinematographer: Jean Boffety
Music: François de Roubaix
Cast:Lino Ventura (Cornelius von Zeelinga),
Brigitte Bardot (Linda Larue),
Bill Travers (Sanderson),
Clive Revill (Lord Hammond),
La Polaca (Catharina),
Jess Hahn (Piet aka "Big Dutch"),
Antonio Casas (Wilkinson),
Andréas Voutsinas (Alvarez),
Guy Marchand (Ronald),
Jack Betts (Renner),
Roger Jacquet (Loisel),
Marc Eyraud (Le toubib),
Stéphane Fey (Searle),
Joe Turner (Mac Allistair),
Robert Lombard (Remus),
Henry Czarniak (Cantacas),
José María Caffarel (Le notaire),
Vicente Roca (Eusebio),
Marc Dudicourt (Le metteur en scène),
Albert Simono (Evans)
Country: France / Italy / Spain
Language: French
Support: Color
Runtime: 135 min
Aka:Rum Runners ;
The Rum Route
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