FAITES SAUTER LA BANQUE

Faites sauter la banque! is a French film realized by Jean Girault, release in 1964.

♦ Synopsis :

Victor Garnier, a small shopkeeper in articles of hunting and fishing decides to be avenged for a verreux banker who deceived it and thus the establishment faces its store. It then involves all its family (her wife and its three children) in the digging of a tunnel which must lead to the strongroom. However, her elder daughter Corinne is courted by Philippe, a young training banker who precisely works in the agency …

♦ Specification sheet :

• Title : Fripouillard et Cie
• Realization : Jean Girault
• Scenario : According to an idea of Louis Sapin
• Adaptation : Jacques Vilfrid and Jean Girault
• Dialogue : Jacques Vilfrid
• Production assistant : Alain Gouze
• Production : Raymond Danon
• Production : The Films Coparnic, P.A.M.E.C
• Music : Paul Mauriat, (editions: Robert Salvet)
• Photography : André Germain
• Operator : André Germain, assisted of Guy Suzuki
• Editing : Jean-Michel Gautier, assisted of Bernard Bourgouin
• Decorations : Sydney Bettex, assisted of Henri Sonois and Claude Blasseville
• Sound : René Sarrazin, assisted of Paul Pauwels and Vartan Karakeusian
• Script-girl : Christiane Vilfrid
• Manager : Pierre Cottance
• Assistant manager : Rudy Le Roy
• Administrator : Maurice Cadaze
• Producer's assistant  : Fanchette Brie
• Photographer : Marcel Dole
• Interior designer : Guy Maugin
• Make-up : Anatole Paris
• Country of origin : France
• Format : black and white - 1,66:1 - Mono - 35 mm
• Recording music and mixing in the studios Marignan
• Edition : Laboratory G.T.C of Joinville
• Film Kodak, recording Westrex
• Shooting in the studios of Boulogne
• Genre : Comedy
• Duration : 88 minutes
• Date exit : February 28th, 1964 (France)
• Visa of exploitation : 28325

♦ Distribution :

• Louis de Funès : Victor Garnier, owner of a store of Hunting and Fishing
• Jean-Pierre Marielle : André Durand-Mareuil, the banker, neighbour of Victor
• Yvonne Clech : Éliane Garnier, the woman of Victor
• Anne Doat : Isabelle Garnier, the elder girl
• Michel Tureau : Gérard Garnier, the son
• Catherine Demongeot : Corinne Garnier, the younger girl
• Georges Wilson : The policeman in cycle
• Jean Valmont : Philippe Brécy, the trainee of the bank, the lover of Isabelle
• Claude Piéplu : The priest
• Georges Adet : Gerber, the employee responsible for chests
• Florence Blot : The cleaning lady
• Nicole Chollet : The customer
• Alix Mahieux : Poupette, the Belgian cousin
• Michel Dancourt : Casimir, the Belgian cousin
• Jean Lefebvre : The foreman on the construction site
• Guy Grosso : The customer
• Jean Droze : The salesman of the big store
• Dominique Zardi : The worker in the trench
• Henri Attal : Ramirez, the worker in the trench
• Dominique Marcas : The local resident
• Nicole Vervil : The customer who wants to make a surprise to her husband
• Yvonne Rozille : Laura, the woman maintained by Durand-Mareuil
• Myriam Michelson : Mireille, the friend of Gérard
• André Badin : The local resident insurer
• Louis Viret : A neighbour
• Robert Favart : The Italian colleague
• Colin Drake : The English colleague
• Reinhard Kolldehoff : The German colleague
• Johny Monteilhet : The telegrapher
• Max Desrau : The customer who brings of the ready cash to the bank
• Yves Elliot : The boss of the coffee
• Philippe Dumat : The police captain

♦ Around the film :

• The film also left thereafter in colorized version.
• One can also quote the presence of atypical actors like Domenica Zardi and Henri Attal, here as workmen trenching.
• The guard of the bank is called Gerber, name given to Michel Galabru in the series of “Gendarme"
• The second collaboration enters Jean Girault and Louis de Funès afterwards Pouic-Pouic. In all, the two men will make 11 films together, up to 1982, date of death of the realizer.
• This film was made enters Pouic-Pouic same realizer and Des pissenlits par la racine, realized by George Lautner.
• Considering the success of Pouic-Pouic, Jean Girault proposed with Louis de Funès a new comedy derechef.

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