The Black Monocle (1961)
Le Monocle noir
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.
- Date of release
- 1961-08-29
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (25)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Comedy
- Director
- Georges Lautner
- Collection
- The Monocle Trilogy
Casting
- Paul Meurisse — Dromard, "Le Monocle"
- Bernard Blier — Commissaire Tournemire
- Elga Andersen — Martha / Erika Murger
- Pierre Blanchar — Le marquis de Villemaur
- Marie Dubois — Bénédicte de Villemaur
- Gérard Buhr — Heinrich
- Albert Rémy — Mérignac, le conservateur
- Jacques Marin — Trochu
- Jacques Dufilho — Charvet, le guide
- Lutz Gabor — Mathias
- Catherine Sola — Monique Abadie
- Raymond Meunier — Raymond
Interesting facts
The Black Monocle is a 1961 French comedy crime film directed by Georges Lautner and starring Paul Meurisse, Elga Andersen and Bernard Blier. It was followed by two sequels The Eye of the Monocle (1962) and The Monocle Laughs (1964).
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