The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

108 mins | Comedy | Nov. 24, 1950

The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

108 mins | Comedy | Nov. 24, 1950

The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
Producers Optimax Films
Original title Le gang des tractions-arrière
Directors Jean Loubignac
Writers

Cast

Roland Armontel

as Antoine Pluchet

Jules Berry

as The Baron of Puy de la Margelle

Liliane Bert

as Gisèle

Raymond Cordy

as Marcel La Sauvette

Max Dalban

as Victor

Albert Duvaleix

as The director of the mental asylum

Jim Gérald

as The bank employee

René Hell

as A mobster

René Lacourt

as Antoine

Charles Lemontier

as Sanzun

Gustave Libeau

as The Brussels stockbroker

Julien Maffre

as The officer at the police station

Mag-Avril

as Someone crazy

Franck Maurice

as An agent

Félix Oudart

as The director of the company

Félix Paquet

as The subway man

Jean Parédès

as Ernest Michaux

Georges Paulais

as Pélot

Marguerite Pierry

as Madame Marcel, the madwoman

Paul Raysse

as A mobster

Marcelle Rexiane

as Someone crazy

Émile Ronet

as The auctioneer

Jane Sourza

as The aunt

Madeleine Suffel

as Someone crazy

Jean Témerson

as Torchard, Pluchet's deputy

Yvonne Yma

as A nurse