Boulevard du rhum (1971)
Directed by Robert Enrico

Adventure / Comedy / Drama
aka: Rum Runners

Film Synopsis

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...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Robert Enrico
  • 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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