Carom Shots (1963)
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Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
- Date of release
- 1963-05-17
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (62)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Marcel Bluwal
Casting
- Jean-Claude Brialy — Paul Martin
- Michel Serrault — Le commissaire Baudu
- Louis de Funès — Norbert Charolais, Directeur Général du 321
- Sophie Daumier — Solange, secrétaire et amant de Paul
- Anne Tonietti — Danielle Brossard, fiancée de Paul
- Henri Virlogeux — Mr. Brossard
- Alfred Adam — Hubert Beaumanoir, cadre supérieur du 321
- René Clermont — Frépillon, cadre supérieur du 321
- Jacques Dynam — Macheron, collaborateur de Paul
- Paul Gay — Le speaker TV
- Gilberte Géniat — Madame Brossard
- Jean Ozenne — D'Aleyrac, cadre supérieur du 321
Interesting facts
Carom Shots is a 1963 French black comedy film directed by Marcel Bluwal. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The French crime writer Fred Kassak felt his novel had been betrayed by the filmmakers.
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