The Sucker
Cast & Crew
Gérard Oury
Bourvil
Louis De Funès
Walter Chiari
Venantino Venantini
Beba Loncar
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
As good-natured but befuddled Antoine Maréchal leaves Paris for a holiday, his car is demolished in a collision with a Bentley that belongs to wealthy Leopold Saroyan. Next day Saroyan offers to make amends by flying Antoine to Naples and arranging for him to drive a friend's Cadillac to Bordeaux. Delighted to have a paid vacation, Antoine readily agrees. Unknown to him, however, a fortune in contraband goods has been concealed on the car: the bumpers are solid gold coated with chrome plating, the tailfins are packed with heroin, and stolen jewels are immersed in the battery fluid. Oblivious to the fact that he is being tailed by Saroyan and his henchmen and also by a trio of hijackers led by the notorious La Souris, Antoine thoroughly enjoys his trip, stopping to offer a ride to a seductive hitchhiking manicurist and, later, a beautiful German girl en route to a nudist colony. As the two rival gangs take potshots at each other, the guileless Antoine rolls merrily along, unaware that bit by bit his precious cargo is either being stolen by garage mechanics or lost on the road. Eventually Antoine realizes that he has been duped; incensed, he cleverly outwits his pursuers by luring them into a police trap. His joy at being still alive is enhanced when he accidentally discovers the world's largest diamond hidden on the Cadillac's steering wheel.
Director
Gérard Oury
Cast
Bourvil
Louis De Funès
Walter Chiari
Venantino Venantini
Beba Loncar
Daniela Rocca
Lando Buzzanca
José-luis De Vilallonga
Saro Urzì
Pierre Roussel
Michel Galabru
Jean Lefebvre
Henri Genès
Henri Virlogeux
Jacques Eyser
Jacques Ary
Guy Delorme
Yvon Jeanclaude
Alida Chelli
Bernard Meusnier
Jean Meyer
Jean Droze
Jean-marie Bon
Jacques Ferrière
Bob Lerick
Louis Viret
Crew
Antoine Bonfanti
Francesco Ciarletta
Henri Decaë
Georges Delerue
Robert Dorfmann
Robert Giordani
Marcel Jullian
Albert Jurgenson
Yves Laplanche
Gérard Oury
Jean Pieuchot
Enzo Provenzale
André Tabet
Georges Tabet
Serge Vallin
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
The vintage car driven by Bourvil is a '64 DeVille Cadillac
Notes
Location scenes filmed in Naples, Rome, Pisa, and Carcassonne. Opened in Paris in March 1965 as Le corniaud; running time: 105 min; in Italy in 1965 as Colpo grosso ma non troppo. Alternative title: The Sucker ... or How To Be Glad When You've Been Had!
