The Cheerful Squadron

The Cheerful Squadron

90 mins | Drama, Comedy | Dec. 5, 1954

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.

The Cheerful Squadron

90 mins | Drama, Comedy | Dec. 5, 1954

The Cheerful Squadron
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Producers Les Films Fernand Rivers, Film Costellazione Produzione, Zebra Films
Original title Allegro squadrone
Directors Vanda Tuzzi, Paolo Moffa, Luigi Vanzi, Marcel Camus, Pietro Notarianni
Writers Georges Courteline, Marcel Camus, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Sandro Continenza, Michel Audiard

Cast

Vittorio De Sica

as Il generale

Daniel Gélin

as Il soldato Frédéric d'Héricourt

Alberto Sordi

as Il soldato Vergisson

Paolo Stoppa

as Il maresciallo Flick

Jean Richard

as Il soldato Laperrine

Silvana Pampanini

as Albertina, la camiera del maggiore

Memmo Carotenuto

as The Quartermaster Sergeant

Charles Vanel

as Il capitano Hurluret

Carlo Lombardi

as Il maggiore

Riccardo Fellini

as Il soldato Bonaparte

Luigi Pavese

as Il capitano medico

Uta Franz

as Bice

Peter Trent

as Il tenente Mousseret

Giacomo Furia

as The Corporal

Walter Santesso

as Defaulter

Gérard Buhr

as Defaulter

Pino Patti

as The Bugler

Attilio Martella

as The Cook

Oreste Lionello

as The Quartermaster's Assistant (uncredited)

Gino Baghetti

as (Voice dubbing for Attilo Martella)

Fiorella Betti

as (Voice dubbing for Uta Franz)

Giorgio Capecchi

as (Voice dubbing for Carlo Lombardo)

Augusto Marcacci

as (Voice dubbing)

Giuseppe Rinaldi

as (Voice dubbing for Daniel Gélin)

Stefano Sibaldi

as (Voice dubbing for Peter Trent)

Vinicio Sofia

as (Voice dubbing for Giacomo Furia)

Renato Turi

as (Voice dubbing for Riccardo Fellini)