The Great Spy Chase (1964)
Les Barbouzes
RUN...love takes you where the spies are...PURSUE...women who are curved like weapons...Hide...with the one you seek...and the sparks fly upward...
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
- Date of release
- 1964-12-10
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (171)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Comedy, Action, Thriller
- Director
- Georges Lautner
Casting
- Lino Ventura — Francis Lagneau
- Francis Blanche — Boris Vassiliev
- Bernard Blier — Eusebio Cafarelli
- Mireille Darc — Amaranthe
- Jess Hahn — Commodore O'Brien
- André Weber — Rudolphe Rossini
- Louis Arbessier — Swiss colonel
- Jacques Balutin — Customs officer
- Françoise Giret — Mrs. Pauline
- Violette Marceau — Lucienne, aka Rosalinde
- Anne-Marie Blot — One of Mrs. Pauline's daughters
- Yves Elliot
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Portugal
Les Barbouzes is a 1964 French cult comedy film, screened in the United States as The Great Spy Chase. Starring Lino Ventura, Bernard Blier and Mireille Darc, with dialogue by Michel Audiard, it is an espionage caper built around the efforts of agents from various countries to extract valuable weaponry patents from the young and attractive widow of an international arms dealer.
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