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