Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
- paris
- france
- smuggling (contraband)
- black market
- nazi occupation
- pork
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jean Gabin
Grandgil, artist painter
Bourvil
Marcel Martin, unemployed taxi driver
Louis de Funès
Jambier, grocer
Jeannette Batti
Mariette Martin, Marcel's wife
- Georgette Anys — Lucienne Couronne, owner of the Belotte cafe
- Robert Arnoux — Marchandot, butcher
- Laurence Badie — Restaurant waitress
- Myno Burney — Angèle Marchandot, butcher
- Germaine Delbat — Restaurant customer
- Monette Dinay — Mrs. Jambier, grocer
- Jean Dunot — Alfred Couronne, owner of the Belotte cafe
- Bernard Lajarrige — Policeman
- Jacques Marin — Owner of the restaurant Saint Martin
- Hubert de Lapparent — Nervous hostage
- Hans Verner — German motorcyclist
- Directed
- Claude Autant-Lara
- Written
- Pierre Bost, Jean Aurenche
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 306 ratings
- Studio
- Continental Produzione, Franco London Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
