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Director: Philippe de Broca
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From Time Out Film Guide
One of the sleepers of all time in that, tried out in a small Boston cinema years after it flopped in the UK and in America, it became a kind of Mousetrap in student cinemas across the States. On a World War I mission, Bates discovers a town of lunatics which is due to be blown up at midnight. The fairy-tale atmosphere and carnival energy are nicely placed, but the whole excessively whimsical thing would have worked so much better if de Broca had toughened up the overall (wartime) context instead of letting everything slide towards farce.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Philippe de Broca
Producer: Philippe de Broca
Cast: Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Christophe, Julien Guiomar, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Micheline Presle, Adolfo Celi full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 110 mins
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