The Great Spy Chase
Les Barbouzes
Comedy
Action
Thriller
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.
1964-12-10
fr
Cast
Director
Georges Lautner
Lino Ventura as Francis Lagneau
Francis Blanche as Boris Vassiliev
Bernard Blier as Eusebio Cafarelli
Mireille Darc as Amaranthe
Jess Hahn as Commodore O'Brien
André Weber as Rudolphe Rossini
Louis Arbessier as Swiss colonel
Jacques Balutin as Customs officer
Françoise Giret as Mrs. Pauline
Violette Marceau as Lucienne, aka Rosalinde
Yves Elliot
Jean-Pierre Moutier as Employee of the Colonel
Gérard Darrieu as Agent Fiduc
Luce Bonifassy
Philippe Castelli as Istanbul hotel receptionist
Robert Secq as Constantin Benard Shah
Charles Millot as Hans Müller
Noël Roquevert as Colonel Lanoix
Ham Chau Luong as Chinese on the train (uncredited)
Michel Dacquin as Barbouze of the train (uncredited)
Robert Dalban as Truck driver (uncredited)
Hubert Deschamps as Customs officer (uncredited)
Marius Gaidon as Stabbed spy (uncredited)
Georges Guéret as American in Lisbon (uncredited)
Monique Mélinand as Mrs. Lagneau (uncredited)
Pierre-Jean Vaillard as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)