The Little Bather
Le Petit Baigneur
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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Cast
Hélène Dieudonné
as La garde-barrière
Pierre Tornade
as Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
Georges Bever
as Le majordome des Fourchaume (uncredited)
Andréa Parisy
as Marie-Béatrice Fourchaume
Nicole Vervil
as La mère du petit Francis
Robert Rollis
as Un marin
Georges Adet
as Le gardien du chantier
Michel Galabru
as Scipio
Colette Brosset
as Charlotte Castagnier
Jacques Legras
as Henri Castagnier, le curé
Philippe Dumat
as Le joueur de tambour de la fanfare
Louis de Funès
as Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
Michèle Alexandre
as L'épouse du ministre
Gérard Calvi
as Le chef de la fanfare
Henri Génès
as Le paysan
Claude Darget
as Le speaker de la course nautique (uncredited)
Max Montavon
as L'homme nu de la cabine (uncredited)
Pierre Tchernia
as Le président du jury (uncredited)
Franco Fabrizi
as Marcello Cacciaperotti
Robert Dhéry
as André Castagnier
Pierre Dac
as Le ministre
