Cloportes

Cloportes

95 mins | Crime, Comedy | Oct. 1, 1965

Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.

Cloportes

95 mins | Crime, Comedy | Oct. 1, 1965

Cloportes
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Les Films du Siècle, Produzioni Artistiche Internazionali
Original title La Métamorphose des cloportes
Directors Pierre Granier-Deferre
Writers Albert Simonin, Alphonse Boudard, Pierre Granier-Deferre, Michel Audiard

Cast

Lino Ventura

as Alphonse Maréchal

Charles Aznavour

as Edmond

Irina Demick

as Catherine Verdier

Maurice Biraud

as Arthur

Georges Géret

as Rouquemoute dit "Le Rouquin"

Pierre Brasseur

as Tonton

Françoise Rosay

as Gertrude, une "prêteuse" du milieu

Annie Fratellini

as Léone Rouqemoute

Norman Bart

as un visiteur de la galerie

Georges Blaness

as Omar

Dorothée Blanck

as Une fille à l'hôtel particulier

Marcel Charvey

as Un visiteur de la galerie

François Dalou

as Un inspecteur de police

Michel Dacquin

as Un barman de boîte de nuit

Marie-Hélène Dasté

as Madame Clancul

Michel Duplaix

as Un maître d'hôtel

Michel Garland

as Un visiteur de la galerie

Jacques Marchand

as Un visiteur de la galerie

François Mirante

as Un inspecteur de police

Donald O'Brien

as Un visiteur de la galerie

Renée Passeur

as Une amie de léone

André Thorent

as Un gangster client du cabaret

Patricia Scott

as Elisabeth

François Valorbe

as Un employé de l'agence de placement

Daniel Ceccaldi

as l'inspecteur de police Lescure

Georges Chamarat

as Edmond Clancul

Marc Arian

as Le domestique de Tonton (uncredited)

Arlette Balkis

as Une adoratrice (uncredited)

Jean Carmet

as Le critique d'art efféminé (uncredited)