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