The Great Spy Chase (1964)
Les Barbouzes
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...
84 min
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.
- Release date
- December 10, 1964
- Country of origin
- Italy, France
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Cast
- Lino Ventura as Francis Lagneau
- Francis Blanche as Boris Vassiliev
- Bernard Blier as Eusebio Cafarelli
- Mireille Darc as Amaranthe
- Jess Hahn as Le Commodore O'Brien
- André Weber as Rudolphe Rossini
- Louis Arbessier as The Swiss Colonel
- Jacques Balutin as Le douanier
- Françoise Giret as Mme Pauline
- Violette Marceau as Rosalinde
- Anne-Marie Blot as One of Mrs. Pauline's daughters
- Michel Duplaix as Barbouze with Fiduc
- Gérard Darrieu as Agent Fiduc
- Luce Bonifassy
- Lutz Gabor as German Colonel
- Raoul Saint-Yves as Sleeper employee
- Philippe Castelli as Istanbul hotel receptionist
- Charles Millot as Hans Müller
- Noël Roquevert as Colonel Lanoix
- Ham Chau Luong as Chinese on the train (uncredited)
- Robert Dalban as Truck driver (uncredited)
- Hubert Deschamps as Customs officer (uncredited)
- Georges Guéret as American in Lisbon (uncredited)
- Monique Mélinand as Mrs. Lagneau (uncredited)
- Pierre-Jean Vaillard as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Crew
- Georges Lautner · Director
- Michel Audiard · Writer
- Albert Simonin · Writer
- Michel Magne · Composer
- Maurice Fellous · Cinematographer
- Michelle David · Editor
- Jacques D'Ovidio · Production designer