Atlantic Wall
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Cast
Terry-Thomas
Commander Perry of British HQ
Robert Le Béal
Officer of the British HQ
Jean-Pierre Zola
Colonel Muller
Marcel Gassouk
German corporal
Bourvil
Léon Duchemin, Norman restaurateur
Jean Poiret
Armand, resistance leader and double agent
Roland Lesaffre
Fake resistance fighter full of tics
Jacques Préboist
Ernest
Billy Kearns
Training camp commander
Peter Myers
Colonel in the R.A.F.
Roger Guillo
Prunier, cook in London
Paul Savatier
Prison guard
Georges Staquet
Hippolyte, leader of the resistance
Roger Trapp
Tramp in prison
Yvon Lec
Gédéon Charlus
Norman Mitchell
Bobby
Stephen Yardley
Bobby
Pino Caruso
Lieutenant Friedrich, Rommel's driver
Jacques Balutin
Resistant gendarme
Jess Hahn
British colonel
Annabel Leventon
Sybil, British non-commissioned officer
Rudy Lenoir
German non-commissioned officer
Reinhard Kolldehoff
Lieutenant Heinrich Jakobus Steinbichler aka 'Totor'
Antoine Baud
Feldgendarme
Pierre Decazes
SS soldier
William Mervyn
Protestant Bishop, Jeff's father
Gerald Campion
Clergyman
René Rall
Gestapo policeman
Jacques Marbeuf
German non-commissioned officer
Rico López
Albert
Frank Williams
Clergyman
John Eppler
Erwin Rommel
Patrick Préjean
Officer of the British HQ
Michel Robin
Shoemaker of shoes for Rommel
Jean Rupert
British HQ order
Jackie Sardou
Angèle Charlus, wife of the painter
Roger Lumont
French chef in London
Maurice Auzel
British soldier (uncredited)
Guy Delorme
German sailor
Fernand Guiot
German corporal of 'Totor'
Sophie Desmarets
Maria Duchemin, sister of Léon
Peter McEnery
Jeff, the downed British airman
Sara Franchetti
Juliette Duchemin, daughter of Léon