Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?
The bill
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Sergeant Pierre Augagneur
Michel Constantin
Adjutant Edouard Mahuzard
Jacques Villeret
Brigadier Béral
Michel Creton
Legionnaire Boissier
- Marie Laforêt — Hélène Laroche-Fréon
- François Perrot — François Laroche-Fréon, director of the bank
- Gérard Buhr — Supply camp officer
- Matthias Habich — Karl Brenner
- Maurice Auzel — Soldier Borzik
- Pierre Semmler — Captain Ulrich Dieterle
- Caroline Silhol — Mrs. Chanterelle
- Michel Beaune — French general (uncredited)
- Michel Berreur — Legionnaire (uncredited)
- Daniel Breton — Legionnaire (uncredited)
- Claude Carliez — Legionnaire (uncredited)
- Directed
- Henri Verneuil
- Written
- Pierre Siniac, Henri Verneuil, Michel Audiard
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 154 ratings
- Studio
- V Films, Carthago Films, Soprofilms, Cerito 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.
