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