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