The Devil by the Tail

  • Comedy
2/7/1969
90

Storyline

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.

Director:
Philippe de Broca
Writers:
Daniel Boulanger
Claude Sautet

      Cast

      • 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
      • Janine Berdin
        Madame Passereau
      • Charles Mallet
        Le commissaire
      • Eddy Roos
        Monsieur Passereau
      • Michèle Moyenin
        Une passante à la recherche du baron César

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