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