The Sucker

The Sucker

111 mins | Crime, Comedy | March 24, 1965

In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".

The Sucker

111 mins | Crime, Comedy | March 24, 1965

The Sucker
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Les Films Corona, Explorer Film '58
Original title Le Corniaud
Directors Gérard Oury
Writers Georges Tabet, Marcel Jullian, André Tabet, Gérard Oury

Cast

Bourvil

as Antoine Maréchal

Louis de Funès

as Léopold Saroyan

Venantino Venantini

as Mickey, "le bègue"

Henri Génès

as Martial, brigadier

Lando Buzzanca

as Lino, barber

Jacques Eyser

as Accomplice of Saroyan

Henri Virlogeux

as Accomplice of Saroyan

Jean Meyer

as Accomplice of Saroyan

Jack Ary

as Chief customs officer

Jean-Marie Bon

as Mechanic of Rome

Guy Delorme

as Luigi, Mickey's accomplice

Jean Droze

as Saroyan henchman

Jacques Ferrière

as Driver of Saroyan

Guy Grosso

as Customs officer

Michel Modo

as Customs officer

Yvon Jeanclaude

as Policeman

Bob Lerick

as Loulou, Mickey's accomplice

Bernard Meusnier

as Saroyan's secretary

Pierre Roussel

as Mario Costa, butler

Beba Lončar

as Ursula, hitchhiker

Alida Chelli

as Gina, manicure

Robert Duranton

as Athlete in the shower (uncredited)

Germaine de France

as Old lady (uncredited)

Marius Gaidon

as Police officer in Bordeaux (uncredited)

Jean Minisini

as Inspector in Carcassonne (uncredited)

Eric Vasberg

as Inspector in Carcassonne (uncredited)

Nicole Desailly

as Mrs Chenu, Marshal's concierge (uncredited)

Saro Urzì

as Tagliella, mechanic in Naples (uncredited)

Walter Chiari

as (uncredited)