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A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.Read moreLess
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.
The story
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.
Cast & crew
Louis de FunèsLe père Graziani, faux religieux ; Prosper le faux garçon d'écurie ; le faux colonel Luc de La Frapinière
Fernand GraveyOlivier Parker, le faux entraîneur hippique, escroc
Jean RichardFerdinand Galiveau, marchand de volailles et turfiste
Jacques DubyAmédée Lucas / Teddy Morton
Darry CowlLe réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia
Micheline DaxLola d'Héricourt, une aventurière
Jacques DufilhoLe garçon d'écurie
Max RévolLe général des Empois
Robert MurzeauLe tailleur, également turfiste
Guy BedosFred Campuche, le jockey
Max DalbanLe gros homme du hammamExplore the crew
- Producer
- Jean-Paul Guibert
- Director of Photography
- Roger Dormoy
- Editor
- Jacqueline Thiédot
- Director
- Norbert Carbonnaux
- Writer
- Michel Audiard
- Writer
- Albert Simonin