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