The Devil by the Tail (1969)
Le diable par la queue
Aw, hell
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
- Date of release
- 1969-02-07
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (57)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Philippe de Broca
Casting
- Yves Montand — Le baron César Maricorne
- Madeleine Renaud — La marquise
- Maria Schell — La comtesse Diane
- Jean Rochefort — Le comte Georges
- Jean-Pierre Marielle — Jean-Jacques Leroy-Martin, le "play-boy"
- Marthe Keller — Amélie, baronne de Coustines
- Claude Piéplu — Monsieur Patin
- Xavier Gélin — Charly - le garagiste
- Jacques Balutin — Max - le premier complice
- Pierre Tornade — Schwartz - le second complice
- Tanya Lopert — Cookie
- Clotilde Joano — La comtesse Jeanne, la cousine pianiste
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